The United States today declared the Syrian Ambassador, Farid Zeinneddine, and Second Secretary Dr. Yassin Zakaria, persona non grata and sharply protested Syrian charges of U.S. involvement in an alleged plot to overthrow the present Damascus Government with purported promises to provide $400, 000, 000 in U.S. aid to a new government which would make peace with Israel.
Zeinneddine’s career in Washington has been marked by repeated protests from Americans because of his scurrilous attacks on Zionism in particular and Jews in general in speeches around the country. Such protests have been ineffective, the State Department holding that anti-Jewish speeches derogating American citizens did not constitute adequate grounds for handing him his passport.
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