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...police chief. He pronounced invalid the ten-year agreement allowing Britain to keep military forces on the island. He asked Washington to suspend further Sixth Fleet visits "pending revision of general agreements." For good measure, Mintoff also declared NATO's Mediterranean commander, Italian Admiral Gino Birindelli, persona non grata. Birindelli, an outspoken right-winger who kept his NATO headquarters on Malta, had accused Mintoff of planning to let the Russians use the island as a naval base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MEDITERRANEAN: The Cross Maltese | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...gambling clubs. Founded in 1827, Crockford's was forced to close because its owners' backgrounds did not meet the rigid standards of the new gambling code. George Raft's Colony Sporting Club on Berkeley Square is also shuttered, and Raft himself has been declared persona non grata by the Home Office. Other closings will certainly follow; by year's end Britain's casinos may be reduced in number to only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Floating Casino | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...breaking off relations with the U.S. Their hostility was underscored by an editorial in the Lagos Daily Express: "We offer no greetings to William Rogers as he steps on Nigerian soil today. For whatever bright promises and goody-goody talks he may utter, we still consider him persona non grata . . . the enemy of this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: An Attentive Listener | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...appointment. Regent Roy V. Harris, editor of the racist Augusta Courier and state chairman of George Wallace's American Independent Party, led the assault on Rusk's policies and qualifications. But Harris' blasts were not really aimed at the policies that have made Rusk persona non grata among liberals in the North. His target was Rusk's liberalism on the race issue. Rusk, who remembers his own humble origins in Georgia's red-clay Cherokee County, long ago antagonized his segregationist former neighbors by his support for civil rights legislation. He shocked them even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: Professor Rusk's Problem | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...about being anyone else. I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with. I've never had it easy. I'm not like all you ... all those people who had it so easy.' " Gloria is now persona non grata among the Nixon entourage, but else where she is in much demand. Her mail and phone calls one recent week included offers to: work as a woman's newscaster on a national network, collaborate on setting her interview with Pat Nixon to music, write the introduction to a German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: Thinking Man's Shrimpton | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

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