Diplomats bark may be worse than bites

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33987, 30 October 1975, Page 17

Diplomats bark may be worse than bites

A I Press Assn—Cvpyrt u fit > PELHAM (New York), October 29. American diplomatic officials were trying to resolte a dispute between the Mayor of Pelham and the United Nations Ambassador from Barbados — who warned ominously of “international consequences” if tiis dog were shot for biting Pelham residents. The Mayor (Mr John Johnson) said that the Ambassador (Mr Waldo EmersonRamsev) had a German sheoherd which had bitten eight people in the last four vears in the suburban Westchester communitv of "000. In a letter to the Ambassador. Mr Johnson said. “I do not agree that diplomatic

jimmunity covers a police do; ‘who runs around unleashei ). biting people.” He said that unless the do; were kept on a leash loca police "have been ordered ti Ishoot the dog in the interest of public safety.” The Mayor said that th< reply from Mr Emerson Ramsey said: “The mine boggles at the tragic calami tous consequences of a per "isonal nature which naturallj flow from any such aberra ' tion. And this consideratior " bespeaks nothing of the pos - sible international con - seouences.” t Copies of the Ambassador’: s warning were sent to th( r Secretarv of State (Dr Henn Kissinger), the United State: • Attorney-General (Mr Edwarc 1 Levi), and the United State: ■ mission to the United Nations