The World - News from July 1, 1986
A Portuguese Embassy official in Moscow was expelled for activities “incompatible with the rules governing conduct of foreign representatives” in the Soviet Union, Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said. The move came one week after Portugal expelled two Soviet Embassy officials in Lisbon for alleged acts against national security and interfering in Portuguese internal affairs. In Lisbon, a government spokesman identified the expelled Portuguese official as Artur Martins, head of chancellery at the embassy, and said he had been given three days to leave.
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