DATE: Monday, November 17, 1997             TAG: 9711170072

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SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 

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DIPLOMAT MACARTHUR, GENERAL'S NEPHEW AND NAMESAKE, DIES AT 88

Douglas MacArthur II, whose Foreign Service career included tours as ambassador to four nations, died at Georgetown University Hospital on Saturday after a stroke and heart attack.

He was 88.

The nephew and namesake of the famous five-star Army general, MacArthur joined the State Department's foreign service in 1935. He was named a career ambassador in 1966 and retired in 1972 after three years as U.S. ambassador to Iran where he escaped a kidnap attempt in 1970.

He held the rank of department counselor from 1953 to 1956 during the Eisenhower administration, coordinating conferences and working on the Austrian state treaty.

He was principal U.S. negotiator of the treaty that established the southeast Asia Treaty organization.

He was assistant secretary of state for congressional relations from 1965 to 1967, during the Johnson administration.

He was ambassador to Japan from 1956 to 1961 and also headed the U.S. missions to Belgium and Austria.

Survivors include a daughter, who lives in Belgium, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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