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Tass Says Latest U.S. Expulsion Is Tit-For-Tat
MOSCOW (AP) The State Department's second expulsion this month of aSov iet official is retaliatory rather than punishment for actualwrongdoin g, the official news agency Tass said today. StateDepartment spokesman C harles Redman ``did not conceal that the actionwas not prompted by any o ther considerations but by a decision of theU.S. to respond to the rec ent expulsion from the USSR of Lt. Col.Daniel Francis Van Gundy,'' Tas s said in a dispatch from Washington.Van Gundy was accused of secretly p hotographing military sites andtrying to enter a closed area. His expu lsion came a week after theMarch 8 arrest of a Soviet military attache w ho was accused of spyingby the FBI. The State Department on Thursday o rdered Sergei Malinin,an employee of the Soviet trade organization Amt org, to leave by nextweek.
