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Ambassador
Theodore
Eliot, Jr.
to Speak
at MSSU
Missouri Southern News Bureau
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 7,
2004
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Dr. Chad Stebbins
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 JOPLIN,
MO (SNS) - Career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan,
Theodore L. (Ted) Eliot, will speak at Missouri Southern State
University on Thursday, Oct. 21.
Ambassador Eliot will speak to three classes during his visit to
MSSU. They include:
- 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m., International Terrorism, Justice Center
Auditorium
- 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Political Parties and Elections, Webster
Hall, Room 208
- 1 p.m.-1:45 p.m., Comparative Politics in Developed Countries,
Webster Hall, Room 208
The International Terrorism Class (9:30-10:45 a.m.) has been moved
to the Auditorium in the Mills Anderson Criminal Justice Center.
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. was a career US Foreign Service Officer
for 30 years, including tours in Sri Lanka, Germany, the Soviet Union,
Iran and, from 1973 to 1978, as US Ambassador to Afghanistan. Eliot was
the last American ambassador to serve in Afghanistan before the Soviet
invasion.
His Washington assignments included Executive Secretary
(1969-73) and Inspector General of the Department of State (1978). From
1978 to 1985, Ambassador Eliot was Dean of the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
He is a founder and member of the American Academy of Diplomacy
and has served on a number of corporate and non-profit boards. He is a
member of Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change (www.diplomatsforchange.com).
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