Kent Wiedemann and his wife came to RFA, DC some time in 1998. His wife was very civil and wanted me to come to lunch with them, but junta-inclined Soe Thinn prevented me from attending.

During this time Daw Suu was stranded in the paddy fields--see wiki above.

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Biography

https://1997-2001.state.gov/www/about_state/biography/wiedemann_k_cambodia.html

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Kent Wiedemann

Ambassador to Cambodia

Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, Kent M. Wiedemann, arrived in Phnom Penh on August 1, 1999. Prior to this assignment, he was appointed as Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon, Burma, where he served as the Chief of Mission. The United States has not had an Ambassador in Rangoon since 1990.

Prior to assuming his posting in Burma, Ambassador Wiedemann was Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State. Previously he served in that same Bureau as Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs. He has also served on the National Security Council staff at the White House and on detail to the Bureau of International Security Affairs at the Department of Defense. Ambassador Wiedemann's overseas assignments include Poznan, Poland; Shanghai and two tours in Beijing, People's Republic of China; Singapore; and Tel Aviv, Israel. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Singapore and Tel Aviv. He joined the Department of State in 1974.

Ambassador Wiedemann is a graduate of San Jose State University in California (B.A., 1967), and earned his M.A. at the University of Oregon in 1973. He served in the Peace Corps in what is now Micronesia. Ambassador Wiedemann is married to an elementary school teacher, and they have one son. Ambassador Wiedemann's languages are Polish and Mandarin Chinese.

Released by the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs January 2000. [end of document]

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