Word: passport
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Worthy is one of three American newspapermen who incurred State Department wrath by violating a ban on travel in Communist China. He and two men from Look Magazine disregarded warnings that their passports were invalid for that country, and still face possible legal action and passport revocation. He returned to this country...
...Seeks Passport Renewal...
Neiman Fellow William Worthy, who recently returned from Red China, said yesterday morning that his passport could not "be revoked at a press conference" and awaited official action by the State Department as a "showdown after a decade of infringement on the rights of the press." His passport had been revoked by Department of State officials at a December 28 press conference...
...Budapest, where he stopped on his return from China, the United States Vice-Consul asked him to surrender his passport, but he refused, and yesterday the Government took no further action either here or in New York...
...Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellow-ships, said that no question would be raised as to his status as a Nieman Fellow. He said the trip was undertaken with his knowledge, and that he had not disapproved Worthy's writing. Lyons had not committed himself on the passport issue...