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...colors of Pan American World Airways to land in Taiwan since 1978; less than 24 hours after its 113 passengers had disembarked last Wednesday, it was at the center of a diplomatic row between the U.S. and China. In Peking, China's Assistant Foreign Minister summoned the U.S. chargé d'affaires and delivered a formal note of protest. Minutes later, the U.S. economic affairs counsellor was handed an official letter from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) detailing retaliatory measures that would be taken against Pan Am, the only U.S. airline with regular flights to Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: High Dudgeon | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

Except for the outcome, the attack on Ray resembled an assault last November on another U.S. diplomat in Paris, Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Christian Chapman. But Chapman had been lucky enough to spot his Arab assailant in time and had escaped a fusillade of shots by ducking behind his car. Security for U.S. embassy personnel had been strengthened after the attempt on Chapman's life. But Ray, who was one of four assistant military attaches, did not have enough rank in the 400-member embassy hierarchy to rate the special protection of a French police car that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Murder on Boulevard Emile-Augier | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Libya has been suspected in the attempted murder last month of Christian Chapman, the American chargé d'affaires in Paris. It has been accused of sending hitmen to assassinate Washington's Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb. And now U.S. intelligence authorities are investigating a report that agents of Muammar Gaddafi may be on the prowl for even bigger targets: President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Guard | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...result, Frederic Chapin, the American chargé d'affaires in San Salvador, persuaded President José Napoleon Duarte to back a further investigation. Worried about her safety, U.S. officials based Torres in Washington and flew her to Central America for the proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Enforced Justice | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

Many of the returned Americans have already resumed their diplomatic or military careers. Of the nine Marines released in January, only one, Sergeant Rodney Sickmann of Washington, Mo., has accepted the offer of an early discharge. Embassy Chargé d' Affaires L. Bruce Laingen rebuffs reports that he will run for public office. "He'd be good at it," said his wife Penelope. "But how could I leave the foreign service?" he countered. Richard Queen, of Lincolnville, Me., whose multiple sclerosis is in indefinite remission, is back at a State Department desk in Washington while awaiting a prized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tehran Was Never Like This | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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