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Student Legal Forum Sponsors
Speech By Sisco On Middle East

By HANK EVANS

Joseph J. Sisco, Assistant
Secretary of State for Near
Eastern and South Asian
Affairs, will speak on the crisis
in the Middle East tomorrow
night at 8:30 in the New
Chemistry Building Auditorium.

Mr. Sisco graduated from
Knox College in 1941 and
received a masters degree and
doctorate from the University
of Chicago. He joined the State
Department in 1951 as a
foreign affairs officer and
officer-in-charge of United
Nations political affairs.

Shortly after he was
appointed the Deputy Director
of the Office of United Nations
Political and Security Affairs
and became Director of the
Office in 1960.

In 1963 Mr. Sisco was made
an assistant secretary for the
Bureau of International
Organizational Affairs, and
then Assistant Secretary of
State for International
Organizational Affairs in 1965.
He has held his present
position since 1969.

Mr. Sisco was a member of
several U.S. delegations to the
United Nations General
Assembly between 1952 and
1968. He was the U.S. delegate
in the 1967 U.N. special
session on the Middle East
crisis.

According to Mr. Sisco, the
cease fire in effect in the
Middle East now is quite
tenuous and has been since its
signing in 1970. However, he
said that there is more realism
in the area today than there
has been for a long time. He

has stated that the countries
have realized the need to
coexist peacefully in order to
survive.

This speech will be the third
and final one in a series
examining United States
foreign policy. These lectures
have been sponsored by the
Student Legal Forum.