The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2014

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JULY-AUGUST 2014 71 The same son who had fled Hungary with him as a little boy and who later became a two-time ambassador, Ambas- sador Tibor P. Nagy Jr., accompanied him on his return to Budapest, along with his daughter-in-law and grandchildren. During his career, Mr. Nagy received various superior and meritorious honor awards, as well as citations fromHaiti and Italy. In addition to Hungarian and Eng- lish, he was also fluent in Russian, French, Italian and Spanish. Mr. Nagy is survived by his son, Tibor Jr., and daughter-in-law, Jane, of Lubbock, Texas; two grandsons, Stephen and Peter; a granddaughter, Tisza Rutherford; and great-granddaughters Aliyah, Kalyx, Serey and Abbey. n Sidney Sober, 94 , a retired Foreign Service officer, died on April 21 at his home in Front Royal, Va. Mr. Sober was born in New York City. He graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, fromCity College (with a junior year’s study in Paris on a special scholar- ship) and entered U.S. government service in 1940 in Washington, D.C., and then in Bermuda. He served as a deck officer on a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Pacific in the latter months of World War II. During his State Department years, Mr. Sober was assigned to a year’s study at both Northwestern University and the U.S. Army War College, and received a master’s degree in international affairs fromThe George Washington University. Mr. Sober joined the Foreign Service in 1947. He served in Madagascar, Czecho- slovakia, Iceland, Turkey and India (where he was acting consul general in Bombay during the 1962 Sino-Indian War). In earlier assignments in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Mr. Sober was economic desk officer for South Asia, director of regional affairs and staff director of the Interdepartmental Regional Group for the area. His last overseas post was as minister- counselor and deputy chief of mission in Islamabad from 1969 to 1973. During the last two years of this assign- ment, when Pakistan was beginning to recover from defeat in a war with India that had ended with Pakistan’s loss of its eastern wing, which became Bangladesh, he was chargé d’affaires. In 1973, Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto credited him for helping to bring competing political elements together to achieve unanimous approval by the National Assembly for the new draft con- stitution, the country’s first democratically endorsed charter, which is still in effect (though frequently amended). On the eve- ning of the vote in the National Assembly, Pres. Bhutto asked Mr. Sober to call on him so the president could thank him. Also in 1973, shortly after Palestinian extremists assassinated the American ambassador and his deputy in Khartoum, the Pakistani government stationed a round-the-clock security detail at Mr. Sober’s residence for a period of several weeks after reports of a terrorist plot tar- geting Embassy Islamabad. From 1974 to 1978, Mr. Sober served as senior deputy assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs. During this period of intensive peacemak- ing efforts and turmoil in the oil industry in the Middle East, he frequently acted as the bureau’s assistant secretary. After retiring from the Foreign Service