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...Manley would not nationalize the U.S.-owned bauxite industry, De Roulet said, he had promised not to intervene in the elections. Manley promptly denied the tale, pointing out that at no time during his campaign had he threatened to nationalize foreign companies. Then he declared De Roulet persona non grata-the first time any U.S. diplomat has been so chastised in Jamaica's ten-year independent history. An editorial titled "No Tears" in the Jamaican Daily News pointedly commented: "What the public needs to know is why the ambassador was allowed to remain as long...
...decade he continued as a semi-public participant in the debate over American policy. But in retrospect, he has a strange enthusiasm for labelling his efforts failures. He describes his delinquencies as ambassador to the Soviet Union, a post he lost when that government declared him persona non grata. He recounts his misadventures as Kennedy's ambassador to the Yugoslavs, and his resignation from the post after a disastrous run-in with Wilbur Mills. By cataloguing numerous failures, he successfully dissociates himself from the outcome of American diplomacy, but at the same time makes his career sound very painful...
...regime of Dictator George Papadopoulos, *however, evidently took umbrage at the red carpet treatment accorded Mangakis; ambassadors, after all, do not usually see political prisoners off. Charging that "some foreigners and their lackeys" had carried out "an unprecedented act of gangsterism," it abruptly declared Ambassador Limbourg persona non grata. Limbourg, as surprised as everyone else, suffered a mild heart attack. At week's end the West German Foreign Ministry agreed to recall Limbourg...
...overblown but engaging film The Boy Friend (TIME, Dec. 20), and she will be the lead in a musical she and Justin want to do about the '30s, entitled Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance. Justin, though credited as "Production Associate," at one point found himself persona non grata on the set of The Boy Friend, and is taking no chances with the new movie they are planning-he will be the coproducer. "We don't talk to agents or read anything sent to us," says Justin about offers made to them by other film companies. "We control our destinies...
...finished his meal 30 minutes later. Only then was he informed that the Kremlin had ordered four British diplomats and a businessman to leave the country. An additional nine diplomats, three businessmen and an academician who were not in the Soviet Union at the moment were declared persona non grata; some of them, in fact, had not been there for five years. For good measure, the Kremlin declared that the visit to Moscow of British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, scheduled for next spring, was "impossible." Whitehall denounced the Soviet action as "arbitrary victimization," but for the moment...