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...Moscow since the early 1960s. In the wake of the microwave disclosures, former embassy employees and their families have recalled suffering strange ailments during their tenure in Moscow, ranging from eye tics and headaches to heavy menstrual flows. Some point out that former Ambassadors to Moscow Charles Bohlen and Llewellyn Thompson both died of cancer, within the last two years one other Moscow diplomat died of cancer, and five women who lived there have undergone cancer-related mastectomies-although no medical authorities attribute these deaths and illnesses to radiation...
...some marbles, a pen nib, a pheasant feather, a piece of burnt parchment and a child's fan, all pasted onto a wooden board. Some fetishist's fun? No, it is a Victorian novelty, a riddle picture made by Britain's Princess Margaret, 45, for Roddy Llewellyn, 28, a rich young swell who recently vacationed with Margaret on the Caribbean island of Mustique. Roddy describes the work as "a private message between Margaret and myself." According to the London News of the World, Roddy, who wears a silver stud in his left ear, has twice invited Margaret...
...Londonderry fracas was just one incident in an anniversary week that left eleven dead and 150 injured across Ulster. Among those killed was four-year-old Siobhan McCabe, felled by a sniper's bullet apparently intended for a British soldier. Another was Samuel Llewellyn, 29, a Protestant truck driver who was delivering a load of paperboard in the Catholic Falls Road area of Belfast to help patch up windows shattered in a bomb blast the previous day. Although Llewellyn was making the delivery at the request of a Catholic welfare organization, he was dragged from the truck...
Last week, in an unprecedented gesture of atonement, hundreds of Catholics turned out for Llewellyn's funeral procession, and Father Aodh Bennett of the Clonard Monastery near Falls Road held prayer services for the soul of "our brother Samuel." Father Bennett said, however, that he would not reveal the names of the two Catholic thugs who he suspects led the mob in Llewellyn's slaughter. "They'll be punished by their own people," he said, "and when that happens, may God avert his eyes...
Kendall got the idea of expanding to Russia from the late Llewellyn Thompson Jr., longtime (1957-62, 1967-69) U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. After making preliminary inquiries at the Soviet embassy in Washington, he put the question directly to Premier Aleksei Kosygin during a high-level trade meeting in Moscow last December. In the middle of their conversation, then-Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans strode up and cracked to Kosygin: "What's Kendall trying to do, sell you a Pepsi?" That was precisely what Kendall was doing, and with swift success: that very evening Kosygin approved the outlines of last...