Word: meloy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Front-Line Casualty In your story about embattled diplomats [Nov. 26] you mention that "in the past eleven years, four American ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty." Actually, there have been five, since you omitted my old friend and Foreign Service colleague, Frank Meloy, Ambassador to Lebanon, who was killed in Beirut on June...
Hazards remain. Hardly a day passes without some form of violence, usually a revenge killing to settle personal accounts. The green line, the wartime boundary between Muslim and Christian zones (see map), where the lengthy list of sniper victims includes U.S. Ambassador Francis Meloy, remains a psychological barrier for many Beirutis. The line is clogged with traffic during the day but it can still be perilous after dark. Yet in most other sections of the city day or night, restaurants and discos are open and busy; action has even returned to the baccarat tables and slot machines the Casino...
...Beirut: "They missed a real opportunity to show the world that even temporarily they could run a de facto emergency government based on sanity, justice and efficiency." Even the fact that the Palestinians protect the U.S. embassy in Beirut-and claim to have arrested the killers of Ambassador Francis Meloy and his aide-has not offset that failure. Moreover, the cancellation of a U.S. convoy out of Beirut last week because the Palestinians said they could not guarantee its safety, may be further evidence of the Palestinians' weakening position...
...State Henry Kissinger, who summoned the ambassadors from four Arab capitals to Paris for a meeting last week. Joining the group was Talcott Seeyle, 54, a longtime Arabist and former ambassador to Tunisia, whom President Ford appointed "special representative" to Lebanon after the murder of Ambassador Francis E. Meloy Jr. (TIME, June 28). The fact that Ford named Seeyle special representative instead of ambassador led to speculation that Washington intended to shut down its embassy in Beirut. White House officials said it was simply a means of circumventing the nomination process in order to get Seeyle to Lebanon as quickly...
June 16, 1976: Ambassador to Lebanon Francis E. Meloy Jr. and Economic Counselor Robert O. Waring, kidnaped and killed in Beirut by as yet unidentified assassins...