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Charles Arthur Borg of La Jolla, Calif., a retired Foreign Service officer, died Jan. 4 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. He was 77. Burial will be held at 10 a.m. Jan. 20 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. For security reasons, attendees are asked to meet at the Hogan Funeral Home in Highland Falls, N.Y., by 9:15 a.m. During his 28-year career in the U.S. diplomatic corps, Borg held embassy assignments in Finland, Austria, Sweden and Japan and was special assistant to Secretary of State Dean Rusk during the tumultuous middle years of the Johnson administration. In Berlin in the early 1970s, he played a role in the negotiations that eased tensions in the divided city. As a lecturer at the University of San Diego from 1985 to 2001, Borg taught courses in international politics and international law, covering such hot-topic issues as armed intervention without a declaration of war and the apprehension of foreign criminal suspects on their own territory, as was done with Manuel Noriega in Panama and the Mexican doctor involved in the torture of U.S. DEA agent Kiki Camarena. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 4, 1926, Borg graduated from Oyster Bay High School on Long Island and spent a year at MIT before entering West Point. He graduated fourth in his class in 1948. His military service included combat in the Korean War and duty on Okinawa. Borg left the Army engineers with the rank of captain and, after earning a second bachelor?s degree at Georgetown University, summa cum laude, joined the Foreign Service in 1955. Borg was the first diplomat to teach at the U.S. Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs, Colo., as a member of the Political Science Department in 1963-65. He received a master?s degree in international affairs from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in 1968. Under then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Borg took part in negotiations resulting in the landmark Berlin Accords in 1971, which redefined the role of the Western powers in a city surrounded since World War II by Easter German and Soviet forces. He served as executive secretary of the State Department in 1976-77 and won the department?s Superior Honor Award for duty as deputy chief of mission at the embassy in Helsinki, Finland, in 1981-83. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1983 with the rank of career minister. Borg is survived by his wife, Sara of La Jolla; son, Jim of Honolulu, daughter, Marion of La Jolla; brother Donn of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif; two grandchildren and two nieces. A funeral was held in La Jolla on Jan. 9.

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