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...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...
...like so many dust devils around Damascus, the capital. Last week the intrigue blossomed anew. Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, in an interview published in the West German magazine Der Spiegel, declared that Assad's younger brother Rifaat, one of Syria's three Vice Presidents, is "persona non grata forever." If Rifaat had not gone into exile in Geneva in June, Tlas added, "the army would have struck...
...thought to have raised objections to Astorga's appointment. But a flat refusal has its risks. Some State Department officers argue that the nomination ought to go through rather than give the Sandinistas a chance to retaliate by declaring newly appointed Ambassador to Nicaragua Harry Bergold persona non grata...
...Miguel d'Escoto was not arriving fashionably late for a nightcap. He handed the Americans a curt note declaring that there were three spies on the embassy staff-Political Affairs Counselor Linda Pfeifel, First Secretary David Greig and Second Secretary Ermila Rodriguez-and they were hereby persona non grata. The trio, D'Escoto said, were to leave Nicaragua within 24 hours...
...Blacks are rare in El Salvador. Reed says he could have encountered more trouble than most journalists. People often assume that any Blacks in the country are Cubans, and thus communists, he says. In the government controlled capital city of San Salvador, that is the equivalent of persona non grata. Reed kept his press identification highly visible, and so he had little trouble in this regard. In general he says the people were very warm and friendly...