Russian expelled by US in spy row

WASHINGTON - The United States last night told Aleksandr Lysenko, a senior Russian diplomat, to leave the country within seven days.

The expulsion, which follows the arrest of Aldrich Hazen Ames, the high-ranking CIA officer accused of working for Moscow since 1985, makes a 'tit-for-tat' war increasingly likely. It came barely 24 hours after a US delegation returned from Moscow, where it had failed to resolve the dispute.

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