Word: gratae
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North is now persona non grata at the White House. Last Wednesday he surrendered his pass, and the next morning was ignominiously turned away at the gate. His office has been sealed by the FBI. If it is established that North was behind the arms sales, he may be prosecuted for violation of the Arms Export Control Act, which requires congressional notification of all American arms transfers. A friend of North's recalls that the Marine often joked about the possibility of being jailed or court-martialed. For Ollie North, it was all in the line of duty...
Five of the diplomats were declared "persona non grata" in retaliation for the earlier expulsion of five U.S. diplomats from Moscow. The additional 50 were ordered out to bring the Soviet embassy staff in Washington and consulate staff in San Francisco "to parity" with the size of the U.S. contingent in Moscow and Leningrad...
...five Soviets declared "persona non grata" were identified as counselors Vasiliy Fedotov, Oleg Likhachev and Aleksandr Metelkin and attache Nikolay Kokovin, all at the embassy in Washington, and Lev Zaytsev, consul in San Francisco...
...unexpected move leaves the Reagan Administration in an increasingly uncomfortable position. Said one weary State Department official: "It looks like we're stuck with him." That may be premature. This week the U.S. will press ahead in its search for a home for the former President turned persona non grata...
...Gelb resigned as director of the State Department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in 1979, his former employer, the New York Times, welcomed him back as national security correspondent. His stint in Government, after all, had only enhanced his sources. Last week, however, Gelb was declared persona non grata at a key stop on his beat: the Bureau of Politico- Military Affairs. The director, Lieut. General John Chain Jr., who has been cooperative with journalists, ordered his staff not to speak to Gelb again. The reason was a report by Gelb in the Feb. 13 edition of the Times...