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Ronald DeWayne Palmer (born May 22 1932) is a former United States Ambassador to Togo (1976–78) Malaysia (1981–83) and Mauritius (1986–89). He was born in Uniontown Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Bordeaux and Howard University in 1955 and Johns Hopkins University in 1957. Palmer entered the Foreign Service in 1957 as an intelligence research specialist in the Department of State. From 1959 to 1960 he attended Indonesian language training at the Foreign Service Institute.