The Michigan Daily-Friday, July 11, 1980-Page 13
Carter shakes
up diplomatic
lineup in Latin
American states
WASHINGTON (AP)-Just four
months before the presidential election,
the Carter administration is planning a
major diplomatic shakeup in Latin
America, with new envoys slated for
eight countries.
U.S. officials acknowledged yester-
day that tenure of some of the new ap-
pointees could be limited to a few mon-
ths if President Carter loses his -re-
election bid and his successor decides
to appoint his own ambassadorial team
early next year.
'ON THE OTHER hand, unlike some
ambassadorial appointees, none of'the
prospective candidates for the Latin
American posts has political ties to
Carter. All are career diplomats.
A Senate source called the ad-
ministration plan "bizarre." But the of-
ficials said the shakeup is prompted by
an unusual set of circumstances.
Only in one case, Guatemala, is a
change being made because of
dissatisfaction with the current am-
bassador, the sources said.
THE ADMINISTRATION is
removing Ambassador Frank Ortiz
from Guatemala as a signal to
Guatemalan authorities of its unhan-
piness with their inability to curb polit-
cal violence.
Ortiz is being replaced after only a
year on the job by the U.S. ambassador
to Chile, George Landau, whose style,
officials say, is "more appropriate" for
dealing with the task at hand.
Ortiz is being reassigned as a
diplomatic adviser to the U.S. Southern
Command in Panama while Landau
will be replaced in Chile by John
Bushnell, currentlya,deputy assistant
secretary in the State Department's
Latin America bureau.
ANOTHER CHANGE prompted by
unusual circumstances involves the
transfer of Diego Asencio to the post of
assistant secretary for consular affairs.
While serving as ambassador to
Colombia, Asencio was kidnapped and
held hostage with a number of other
diplomats for two months earlier this
year. The administration decided it
would not be appropriate for Asencio to
return to Colombia because of his or-
deal.
Among the possible candidates to
succeed Asencio is Samuel Eaton, a
deputy assistant secretary of state with
long experience in hemispheric affairs.
HOWARD "BUDDY" JACOBSON, WHO ESCAPED FROM A New York
City prison last spring while awaiting start of a sentence for a murder
conviction, was apprehended Wednesday in a Manhattan Beach California
restaurant. He was escorted by police Wednesday night to a Los Angeles
County jail.
Convicte fled
to seek new evidence
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Back behind
bars, Howard "Buddy" Jacobson
claimed yesterday he escaped from jail
and fled across the country to try to find
evidence to vindicate himself in the
murder of his rival for the affection of
model Melanie Cain.
His attorney, Jacob Evseroff, said
Jacobson told him he was looking for
drug traffickers who, the convicted
killer maintained during his trial, were
responsible for killing restaurateur
Jack Tupper.
JACOBSON, 50, once a nationally
known trainer of thoroughbred race
horses, was convicted last April 12 after
an 11-week trial ip New York City. He
escaped from a Brooklyn jail May 31.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene
Gold said Jacobson escaped by swit-
ching places with a man who posed as
an attorney to visit him in jail. He said
Jacobson then drove west, stopping in
Wyoming, where he asked a friend for
money, and in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Following his escape, he was senten-
ced in absentia to a maximum term of
25 years to life for the brutal slaying of
Tupper, 34, whose shot, stabbed and
bludgeoned body was found in a bur-
ning crate in a dump in the Bronx on
Aug. 6,1978.
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