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Abad Santos, Vicente, Philippine Secretary of Justice
Abramowitz, Morton I., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until 1978; U.S. Ambassador to Thailand from June 1978
Albright, Madeleine, Congressional Relations Officer, Press and Congressional Liaison Office, National Security Council from March 1978
Allende, Salvador, President of Chile from November 1970 until September 1973
Alston, Philip Henry, U.S. Ambassador to Australia
Amarand, Prok, Thai Ambassador to the United States
Armacost, Michael H., member, National Security Council Staff for East Asia and China until July 1978; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia, Pacific and Inter-American Affairs from July 1978; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from January 1980
Arun Panupongse, Thai Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ashari, Danudirdjo, Indonesian Ambassador to the United States

Baucus, Max S., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Montana) until December 1978; Senator from January 1979
Begin, Menachem, Israeli Prime Minister
Bell, Griffin B., Attorney General until August 1979
Bentsen, Lloyd, Senator (D–Texas)
Bergland, Robert S., Secretary of Agriculture
Bleakley, Kenneth W., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Blumenthal, W. Michael, Secretary of the Treasury until August 4, 1979
Boonchoo, Rojanastien (Bunchu), Thai Deputy Prime Minister from March 1980
Bourne, Peter G., Special Assistant to the President for Drug Abuse and Health Issues until July 1978
Brezhnev, Leonid I., General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Brown, Harold, Secretary of Defense
Bundy, William Putnam, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1964 until 1969
Byrd, Harry Flood, Jr., Senator (I–Virginia)

Califano, Joseph A., Jr., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare until August 1979
Carrington, Lord (Peter Alexander), Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from May 1979
Carter, James Earl, Jr., “Jimmy” President of the United States
Carter, Rosalynn, First Lady of the United States
Ceauşescu, Nicolae, President of Romania
Chai Zemin (Ch’ai Tse-min), People’s Republic of China Ambassador to the United States from March 1979
Chiang Ching-kuo, see Jiang Jingguo
Church, Frank F., III, Senator (D–Idaho)
Clark, Richard C. “Dick”, Senator (D–Idaho), U.S. Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Refugee Affairs from May 1 until November 1, 1979
Claytor, W. Graham, Jr., Secretary of the Navy from February 14, 1977, until July 26, 1979; Acting Secretary of Transportation in 1979; Deputy Secretary of Defense from August 24, 1979
Cleveland, Paul Matthews, Director of the Office of Thailand, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
Clifford, Clark M., Secretary of Defense from March 1968 until January 1969
Cooper, Richard Newall, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from April 1977
Cranston, Alan M., Senator (D–California)
Cutler, Lloyd N., White House Counsel from 1979

Danforth, John Claggett, Senator (R–Missouri)
Dayan, Moshe, Israeli Defense Minister
de Gaulle, Charles, President of France from January 1959 until April 1969
DeConcini, Dennis Webster, Senator (D–Arizona)
Denend, Leslie G., member, National Security Council Staff for International Economics until April 1979; Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 1980
Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p’ing), People’s Republic of China Deputy Premier from 1952 until 1967; Vice Premier of State Council from 1973 until 1974; Vice Premier until 1983
Derian, Patricia Murphy “Patt”, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Department of State
Devesi, Baddeley, Governor General of the Solomon Islands from June 1978
Dhanabalan, Suppiah, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Singapore
Do Thanh, First Secretary, Socialist Republic of Vietnam Embassy, France

Eastland, James Oliver, Senator (D–Mississippi) until December 1978
Edelman, Marian Wright, Founder of Children’s Defense Fund
Eilberg, Joshua, member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Pennsylvania) until January 1979
Eizenstat, Stuart E., Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
Enrile, Juan Ponce, Philippine Secretary of National Defense from 1970
Evans, Billy Lee, member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Georgia)

Falco, K. Mathea, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for International Narcotic Matters
Finch Hoyt, Mary, Press Secretary to the First Lady and East Wing Coordinator
Fraser, J. Malcolm, Australian Prime Minister
Fukuda, Takeo, Japanese Prime Minister until December 1978

Gammon, Samuel D., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Paris
Gandhi, Indira, Indian Prime Minister until March 1977 and from January 1980
Garn, Edwin Jacob, “Jake”, Senator (R–Utah) from December 21, 1974
Giap, Vo Nguyen, see Vo Nguyen Giap
Gilligan, John Joyce “Jack”, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from March 1977 until July 1979
Glenn, John H., Jr., Senator (D–Ohio) from December 24, 1974
Gleysteen, William Henry, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State; U.S. Ambassador to South Korea from July 1978
Gregg, Donald Phinney, member, National Security Council Staff for East Asian and Chinese Affairs from January 1980
Griffin, Robert Paul, Senator (R–Michigan)

Ha Van Lau, Vietnamese Permanent Representative to the United Nations Mission in New York
Habib, Philip Charles, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until April 1978
Hall, Sam Blakeley, Jr., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Texas)
Harter, Dennis, member, Office of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
Hartling, Poul, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1978
Hassan II, King of Morocco
Heginbotham, Erland, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
Heng Samrin, member, Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation; Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Kampuchea from 1979
Holbrooke, Richard C., Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Hollings, Ernest F. “Fritz”, Senator (D–South Carolina) from Nobember 9, 1966
Holtzman, Elizabeth, member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–New York)
Hormats, Robert David, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs until 1979; Deputy Trade Representative from 1979
Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng), member, Politburo from 1973 until 1982; Premier of the State Council of People’s Republic of China from 1976 until 1980; Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1976 until 1981
Huang Hua, People’s Republic of China Ambassador to the United Arab Republic until July 1969; People’s Republic of China Ambassador to Canada, July 1971; People’s Republic of China Chief Delegate, UN Security Council and People’s Republic of China Ambassador to the United Nations from November 1971
Hull, Cordell, Secretary of State from 1933 until 1944
Hun Sen, Kampuchean Foreign Minister
Hussein bin Onn, Malaysian Prime Minister

Inderfurth, Karl Frederick “Rick”, Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 1977 until April 1979
Ieng Sary, Kampuchean Deputy Prime Minister in Charge of Foreign Affairs
Inouye, Daniel K., Senator (D–Hawaii)
Ito, Masayoshi, Japanese Prime Minister

Jackson, Robert G.A., Sir, Under Secretary-General for the United Nations
Javits, Jacob Koppel, Senator (R–New York)
Jiang Jingguo (Chiang Ching-kuo), President of the People’s Republic of China from 1978
Jones, David C., General, USAF; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from June 1978

Kalkoa, George, President of Vanuatu from July 1980
Kamphay Boupha, Lao Minister of Posts & Telecommunications
Kaunda, Kenneth David, President of Zambia
Kaysone Phomvihan, Lao Prime Minister
Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted”, Senator (D–Massachusetts)
Khalil, Mustafa, Egyptian Prime Minister
Khieu Samphan, Chairman of the State Presidium of Kampuchea; Kampuchean Prime Minister
Kim Il-sung (Kim Il-Sung), Premier and Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Kissinger, Henry A., National Security Advisor, from 1969 until 1975; Secretary of State, from September 1973 until January 1977
Kneip, Richard Francis, U.S. Ambassador to Singapore from May 1978 until September 1980
Komer, Robert W., Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from October 24, 1979
Kosygin, Aleksey N., Chairman, Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
Kreps, Juanita M., Secretary of Commerce until October 1979
Kriangsak Chamanan, General, Thai Prime Minister from November 11, 1977, until March 3, 1980

Lau, Ha Van, see Ha Van Lau
Le Duan, General Secretary of the Vietnamese Workers’ Party (later the Vietnamese Communist Party)
Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean Prime Minister
Levin, Carl M., Senator (D–Michigan)
Lon Nol, President of the Khmer Republic from March 1972 until April 1975
Loy, Frank E., Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugee and Migration Affairs from June 1980
Lipshutz, Robert J., White House Counsel until 1980

Ma Khaikhamphithoun, Lao Chief of the National Planning Committee
Manglapus, Raul, Philipine politician; opponent of Marcos
Manley, Michael N., Jamaican Prime Minister
Mansfield, Michael Joseph “Mike”, Senator (D–Montana) from 1952 until 1976; U.S. Ambassador to Japan from June 1977
Mao Tse-tung, see Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party until September 9, 1976
Mara, Kamisese, Fijian Prime Minister
Marcos, Ferdinand, President of the Philippines
Marcos, Imelda, First Lady of the Philippines; Special Diplomatic Envoy from 1978
Masters, Edward E., U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia from November 1977
Mathews, Jessica Tuchman, member, National Security Council Staff for Global Issues from January 1977 until June 1979
Maung Maung Kha, U Lay, Burmese Prime Minister
Maynes, William Charles “Bill”, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from April 14, 1977
McAuliffe, Eugene V., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until April 1, 1977
McHenry, Donald F., U.S. Representative to the United Nations
McIntyre, James T., Jr., Director of the Office of Management and Budget from March 24, 1978
McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense
Mendoza, Estelito P., Philippine Solicitor General
Mochtar, Kusumaatmadja, Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Moi, Daniel T. arap, Kenyan President from August 1978
Mondale, Walter F. “Fritz”, Vice President of the United States from 1977
Montgomery, Gillespie “Sonny” V., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Mississippi); Chairman, House Select Committee on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia
Moore, Francis B. “Frank”, Assistant to the President for Congressional Liaison from 1977
Muldoon, Robert David, New Zealand Prime Minister
Murdani, Leonardus Benjamin, Major General and Chief of Intelligence for the Indonesian Department of Defense and Security
Murphy, Richard William, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from June 1978
Muskie, Edmund Sixtus, Senator (D–Maine) until 1980; Secretary of State from May 1980

Negroponte, John Dimitri, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Neto, Agostinho, President of Angola
Ne Win, U, President of Burma
Newsom, David Dunlap, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia until November 1977; U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from November 1977 until March 1978; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from April 1978
Ngo Dien, Vietnamese Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nguyen Co Thach, Vice Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1960 until 1979
Nguyen Duy Trinh, North Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States from 1969 until 1974
Nouphan Sitphasay, Lao Deputy Foreign Minister
Nunn, Samuel “Sam” Augustus, Senator (D–Georgia)

Oakley, Robert Bigger, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Ohira, Masayoshi, Japanese Prime Minister from December 1978 until June 1980
Okita, Saburo, Japanese Foreign Minister from December 1979
Oksenberg, Michel, member, National Security Council Staff for East Asia and China until February 1980
Olewale, Ebia, Deputy Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
O’Neill, Thomas Phillip “Tip”, Jr., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Massachusetts); Speaker of the House
Ople, Blas, Philippine Secretary of Labor and Employment
Osborn, David Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador to Burma until July 1977
Owen, Henry David, Special Representative for Economic Summits from March 1977; member, National Security Council Staff for International Economics from October 1977; Ambassador at Large from October 1978

Palimieri, Victor H., Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for Refugee Affairs from December 1979
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza, Shah of Iran until December 1979
Paterno, Vicente T., Philippine Secretary of Industry
Peacock, Andrew S., Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Pell, Claiborne, Senator (D–Rhode Island)
Petree, Richard W., Deputy U.S. Representative to the UN Security Council from October 1979
Pham Van Dong, Vietnamese Prime Minister
Phan Hien, Vietnamese Vice Foreign Minister
Phoun Sipaseut, Lao Minister of Foreign Affairs
Platt, Nicholas, member, National Security Council Staff for East Asian and Chinese Affairs from 1978 until 1980; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1980
Pol Pot (Saloth Sar), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea; Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) until January 7, 1979
Powell, Joseph “Jody” L., Jr., White House Press Secretary
Praman Adireksarn, Major General, Thai Deputy Prime Minister
Pratuang Kiratibutra, Thai Minister of the Interior
Prem Tinsulanonda, General, Thai Prime Minister from March 1980
Prok, see Amaranand, Prok

Qaddafi, Muammar, Chairman of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council and Commander in Chief of the Libyan Armed Forces
Quiazon, Troadio, Philippine Secretary of Trade

Raines, Franklin Delano “Frank”, Assistant Director of Domestic Policy Planning
Rajaratnam, Sinnathamby, Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister
Renouf, Alan Philip, Australian Ambassador to the United States from 1977 until 1979
Richardson, Elliot Lee, U.S. Ambassador at Large and the President’s Special Representative for Law of the Sea
Rithauddeen bin Ismail, Ahmad, Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Roberts, George B., Jr., Chargé d’Affaires ad interim to Laos
Rodino, Peter W., Jr., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–New Jersey)
Romulo, Carlos F., Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Rusk, David Dean, Secretary of State from January 1961 until January 1969
Ryan, Leo J., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–California) until November 1978

Sadat, Anwar, President of Egypt
Sasser, James R., Senator (D–Tennessee)
Schecter, Jerrold, member, Press and Congressional Liaison Office, National Security Council Staff; Press Officer and Associate Press Secretary from January 1977 until February 1980
Schlesinger, James R., Secretary of Energy from August 5, 1977 until July 20, 1979
Schmidt, Helmut, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Sicat, Gerardo, Philippine Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority
Sieverts, Frank A., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Coordinator for Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Matters, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, from 1977 until 1979; Director, Country Reports, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, 1979
Sihanouk Norodom, King of Cambodia from 1941 until 1955; Cambodian Chief of State from 1960 until 1970
Sin, Jaime, Cardinal, Archbishop of Manila
Sitthi Savetsila, Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs
Smith, Ian Douglas, Rhodesian Prime Minister
Son Sann, Kampuchean Deputy Prime Minister in Charge of National Defense
Sonoda, Sunao, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs until November 1979
Soubanh Sithilath, Secretary General of the Lao Foreign Ministry
Souphanouvong, President of Laos
Strauss, Robert Schwarz, Special Representative for Trade Negotiations from 1977 until 1979; Personal Representative of the President from April 1979
Stull Lee Thomson, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Manila until March 1978; Chargé d’Affaires to the Philippines from March 1978 until May 1978
Sudharmono, Major General, Indonesian Minister of State for Administration
Suharto, Mohammed, General, President of Indonesia
Sullivan, Roger W., Hong Kong International Relations Officer from August 1976; Deputy Chief of Mission Minister Counselor in Taipei from August 1977; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from July 1978; member, National Security Council Staff for East Asian and Chinese Affairs from February 1980
Sullivan, William Healy, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from August 1973 until April 1977; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1969 until 1973
Suzuki, Zenko, Japanese Prime Minister from July 1980

Talboys, Brian E., New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister; New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs
Tarnoff, Peter R., Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary, Department of State, from April 4, 1977
Teng Hsiao-p’ing, see Deng Xiaoping
Tatad, Francisco “Kit” Sarmiento, Philippine Secretary of Public Information
Teo, Fiatau Penitala, Governor General of Tuvalu from September 1978
Thach, Nguyen Co, see Nguyen Co Thach
Thanat Khoman, Colonel, Thai Deputy Prime Minister from March 1980
Thanin Kraivichian, Thai Prime Minister until October 1977
Thatcher, Margaret, British Prime Minister
Tito, Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia
Toussaint, Donald R., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Manila
Trudeau, Pierre-Elliott, Canadian Prime Minister

Underhill, Francis T., U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia until May 1977
Uppadit Pachariyangkun, Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs

Vance, Cyrus, Secretary of State
Velasco, Geronimo, Philippine Secretary of Energy
Vorster, Balthazar Johannes, South African Prime Minister

Waldheim, Kurt J., Secretary-General of the United Nations
Weicker, Lowell P., Jr., Senator (R–Connecticut)
Whitehouse, Charles Sheldon, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand until June 1978
Wolff, Lester Lionel, member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–New York)
Woodcock, Leonard F., Chief U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing from July 1977 until March 1979; U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from March 1979

Vo Nguyen Giap, General, Vietnamese Minister of National Defense

Yost, Charles Woodruff, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from January 22, 1969, until February 25, 1971; Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute
Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Georgia) unil January 29, 1977; U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from January 30, 1977, until September 23, 1979

Zablocki, Clement J., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Wisconsin)
Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the State Council of China
Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai), Premier of the People’s Republic of China from October 1949 until January 1976
Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad, President of Pakistan from September 1978

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XXII, Southeast Asia and the Pacific

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