Victor L. Tomseth (born April 14, 1941) is a former American diplomat and U.S. Ambassador (1993–1996) to Laos. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Tehran, Iran and was among the Americans taken hostage by the Iranians from 1979 to 1981.
Victor or Viktor is both a given name and a surname. It is Latin in origin meaning winner or conqueror, and the word “victor” still means this in Modern English.
Wendy Jean Chamberlin (born 12 August 1948) is an American retired diplomat who worked for the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (Usaid), was the deputy to the United Nations High Commissioner on…
Šesti Američanům se podařilo uprchnout na sousední kanadské velvyslanectví. Posléze pobývali další necelé tři měsíce v rezidenci kanadského velvyslance, než mohli 28. ledna 1980 vycestovat ze země na falešné kanadské pasy na lince do Curychu…
Shane Bauer is an American journalist, best known for his undercover reporting for Mother Jones magazine. [1 ] He has won several awards including the Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the National Magazine Award for…
5. 1. 2014Val di Fiemme - Běžkyně na lyžích Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová skončila v Tour de Ski osmá a dosáhla druhého nejlepšího českého výsledku mezi ženami v historii.…
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper: Directed by Lamont Johnson. With Gordon Pinsent, Chris Wiggins, Diana Barrington, Robert Joy. A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape…