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On January 10, 1984, when President Reagan announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the Holy See, he appointed William A. Wilson, who had been serving as his personal representative to the Pope, as the first US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Holy See.
The West German Interior Minister yesterday confirmed a report that an unarmed 20-year-old Soviet soldier in uniform crossed the fortifications along the East German frontier and fled into the Federal Republic on Tuesday, Michael Binyon writes from Bonn. The junior NCO got through the formidable barbed wire and alarm systems, past East German border guards and arrived unharmed in Lower Saxony, according to the West German border guard, it is only the eighth time since 1953 that a Soviet soldier based in East Germany has succeeded in escaping to the West. The last such incident was in 1976.
On January 10, 1984, when President Reagan announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the Holy See, he appointed William A. Wilson, who had been serving as his personal representative to the Pope, as the first US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Holy See.