The World - News from June 24, 1986

Portugal expelled two Soviet Embassy junior officials for activities threatening the country’s security, the Foreign Ministry said. A ministry spokesman said that Vladimir Galkine and Guennadi Chiniev, members of the embassy’s commercial department, were told to leave within three days for “inadmissible intervention in internal affairs against the security of the state.” He declined to elaborate but said the officials held “non-diplomatic status.” The expulsions raised to nine the number of Soviet diplomats and officials ousted since Portugal established diplomatic relations with Moscow in 1974.