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WORLD, Page 48Grapevine
BACK ON THE PAYROLL? Students of the Iran-contra scandal will
remember that former CIA operative Felix Rodriguez, code name Max
Gomez, played a crucial role in supplying arms to the contras from
El Salvador's Ilopango air base, where he worked undercover as an
adviser to the Salvadoran military. Within the past few months,
Rodriguez quietly returned to his adviser's job, but not
necessarily to the CIA's payroll. Five weeks ago, he went to
Washington with the Salvadoran air force chief, who was lobbying
for continued U.S. aid. Said a State Department official of
Rodriguez: "As far as we know in this building, we're not paying
him."
PLATE LICENSE. Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is once again
playing diplomatic chicken with the U.S. -- this time on Panama's
highways. As part of its ongoing protest against Noriega,
Washington has ordered its employees in Panama not to pay the
country's payroll taxes. But certification of payment is necessary
to obtain license plates. As a result, many of the embassy's 104
staffers and some 12,000 American and Panamanian workers are
driving their cars without valid plates. So far, Panamanian police
have not seized the unlicensed vehicles, but U.S. officials are
organizing a fleet of minibuses just in case.
FLYING SOUTH. In the face of stiffening West German opposition
to low-altitude military aircraft flights, NATO planners have begun
talks with Morocco. The North African desert would be ideal for
instrument-controlled night flying and other dangerous training
missions. Two locations being discussed: the former U.S. bases at
Kenitra and Sidi Slimane, the latter the site of a Strategic Air
Command base that was closed in 1978.