The World - News from July 17, 1987

U.S. diplomats in Havana have been subjected to “dangerously close surveillance” and their cars sprayed with paint, the State Department said, explaining a U.S. order requiring two Cuban diplomats to leave the country by July 25. Department spokesman Charles Redman said the action was taken in response to various forms of harassment directed against U.S. diplomats in Havana and a Cuban media campaign accusing them of spying. “These activities have created intolerable conditions” for the diplomats, Redman added. The two countries do not have formal diplomatic relations but maintain so-called interests sections in the embassies of other countries.