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"U.S. Ambassador to Sudan and His Aide Reported Seized by Guerrillas at Party"

Newspaper article

By: Richard D. Lyons

Date: March 2, 1973

Source: New York Times.

About the Author: At the time the primary source was written, Richard D. Lyons was a reporter for the New York Times.

INTRODUCTION

Early in the evening of March 1, 1979, United States Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel, Jr., along with George Curtis Moore (Noel's Chargé d'Affaires, or deputy chief of mission) and Guy Eid (a Belgian diplomat), were kidnapped by eight masked gunmen while exiting a diplomatic reception at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum, the capital of the...