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It sounded kind of funny on the radio: “In the news this morning: a mob in Teheran has seized the U.S. Embassy, the American Ambassador to Afghanistan has been kidnapped and slain, and President Carter is on his way to Mexico.”

Aswegoto press, radio dispatches from the Middle East report the killing of the American Ambassador to Kabul, Adolph Dubs, and the invasion and occupation of the American Embassy in Teheran by squads of armed men. The information regarding both events is scanty. Ambassador Dubs was apparently kidnapped by political terrorists, possibly opposed to the regime in Afghanistan, and held against the release of some prisoner. In the course of an effort by Afghan authorities to apprehend the terrorists, several of them were apparently killed, and when the Ambassador was found he was dead. Ambassador Dubs was a senior career officer of the foreign service with many assignments in Europe and the Middle East. He served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow in the early Seventies and was for an extended period Chargé d’Affaires of the American Embassy there. His was a career of which the United States can be proud.

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It sounded kind of funny on the radio: “In the news this morning: a mob in Teheran has seized the U.S. Embassy, the American Ambassador to Afghanistan has been kidnapped and slain, and President Carter is on his way to Mexico.”

Aswegoto press, radio dispatches from the Middle East report the killing of the American Ambassador to Kabul, Adolph Dubs, and the invasion and occupation of the American Embassy in Teheran by squads of armed men. The information regarding both events is scanty. Ambassador Dubs was apparently kidnapped by political terrorists, possibly opposed to the regime in Afghanistan, and held against the release of some prisoner. In the course of an effort by Afghan authorities to apprehend the terrorists, several of them were apparently killed, and when the Ambassador was found he was dead. Ambassador Dubs was a senior career officer of the foreign service with many assignments in Europe and the Middle East. He served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow in the early Seventies and was for an extended period Chargé d’Affaires of the American Embassy there. His was a career of which the United States can be proud.