A Roll Call of Dead Diplomats

The deaths in Beirut were the latest in a bloody chain in which four American ambassadors and six other U.S. officials have been killed in overseas terrorist incidents since 1968. American diplomats were also victims in at least a dozen other incidents, mostly kidnapings. Though a number of diplomats from other countries, notably Israel, West Germany and Turkey, have also been assassinated, U.S. representatives have been hardest hit. The roll call of American dead:

Aug. 28, 1968: J. Gordon Mein, Ambassador to Guatemala, shot and killed during a kidnaping attempt by revolutionaries in Guatemala City.

June 10, 1970: U.S. Army Major Robert Perry, a military attache, killed by Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan.

July 31, 1970: Daniel Mitrione, a public safety adviser in Uruguay, kidnaped by Tupamaros guerrillas and shot.

March 1, 1973: U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel, and his deputy chief of mission George C. Moore, executed in Khartoum by Palestinian guerrillas, along with a Belgian diplomat.

Aug. 19, 1974: Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies, shot and killed during a demonstration in front of the American embassy in Nicosia.

Feb. 25, 1975: John P. Egan, consular agent in Cordoba, Argentina, kidnaped and killed by guerrillas.

Dec. 23, 1975: Richard S. Welch, Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Athens, killed by assassins.

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.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.