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LONDON - Mr David GoreBooth, a senior Foreign Office diplomat, is to be the new British High Commissioner to India, it was announced…

LONDON - Mr David GoreBooth, a senior Foreign Office diplomat, is to be the new British High Commissioner to India, it was announced yesterday. Mr Gore Booth (52), whose father Sir Paul had the same job in the 1960s, takes up his new post in early March.

He was the assistant undersecretary of state in charge of the Middle East during the Gulf War.

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