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UN AMBASSADOR FROM THE ARAB LEAGUE WILL SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY

Clovis Maksoud, the Arab League's ambassador to the United Nations,

will give a free public lecture in the University of Montana Underground

Lecture Hall Tuesday, May 21, at 8:30 p.m. His topic is "The Arab World

Today."

The ambassador has been the permanent observer of the League of Arab

States at the United Nations and chief representative of the league in the

United States since Sept. 1, 1979.

The lawyer, journalist and diplomat served as the league's ambassador

to and Southeast Asia from 1961 to 1966. He was the league's special

envoy to the United States in 1974 and 1975.

He was senior editor of the daily Al-Ahram in Cairo, Egypt, from 1967

to 1971. In 1972, he was named editor-in-chief of Al-Nahar, an Arabic

language weekly published in Beirut and Paris. He held that post until his

appointment to the United Nations in 1979.

Maksoud is the author of several books on the Middle East and the Third

World. He received an undergraduate degree from the in

Beirut and went on to graduate work at George Washington University in

Washington, D.C., and Oxford University in England.

He is a Lebanese national and is married to Hala Salam.

His talk in Missoula is sponsored by the International Students

Association at UM and ASUM Programming.