Officer to leave
-! CA Z. Presi Assn—Copyright) j TOKYO An officer at the United . States Liaison Office in Peking is leaving China because his car struck and killed a Chinese, the liaison ’ office said. 1 A statement issued by > Mr David Bruce, head of ■ the United States mission in > China, said Mr Nicholas > Platt, aged 37, a political 7 officer, “is preparing to leave ’[ Peking shortly on transfer Oto a new assignment.” [ The statement said Mr > Platt was driving his car, and ■ it was involved in an acciI dent resulting in the death of ' a Chinese. 1 It said the Chinese Foreign Ministry had informed the . United States office that, in ‘ cases where diplomats have I been involved in fatal acci- ■ dents, the diplomats “invari- > ably have been withdrawn on i their own initiative.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33433, 15 January 1974, Page 16
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134Officer to leave Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33433, 15 January 1974, Page 16
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