
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, February 22, 1991                   TAG: 9102220316
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

U.S. EXPELS DIPLOMAT

The State Department has ordered one of the four Iraqi diplomats still in Washington to leave the United States, it was learned Thursday night.

No reason was given for the expulsion, but the order was cast in terms normally used in espionage cases.

The diplomat, the third secretary in the Iraqi embassy, was ordered to leave the United States by midnight Saturday. The department did not identify him by name.

"The decision relates to his activities," said Richard Boucher, a State Department spokesman.

Iraq has broken relations with the United States. Even so, and despite the ongoing war, four Iraqi diplomats were permitted to remain in Washington.

- Associated Press

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