Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nieman Fellow William Worthy returned yesterday morning from a 41-day tour of Communist China, but the Department of State made no effort to seize his disputed passport...
...passport had been officially "revoked" on December 28 after he and two other United States newsmen had entered Red China. The State Department has insisted that reporters must not enter China while Americans remain imprisoned there...
...State Department for an open formal hearing in Hungary on a directive that he must return to the United States. He also said he is going to consult with the American Civil Liberties Union, which has promised to make a test case of State Department passport restrictions against travel by American correspondents in Communist China...
...Passports Revoked. At week's end the State Department revoked the passports of Worthy, Stevens and Harrington; they will be valid only for their return to the U.S. The Treasury Department also threatened to block the correspondents' bank accounts for violating the 1950 law forbidding financial dealings with Communist China. The Government did not, however, say that it would take action against the Afro-American or Look, or permanently cancel the newsmen's passports. Nor did it threaten to impose the maximum penalty for violating passport restrictions: $2,000 fine and five years in prison...
...State Department has said it would revoke Worthy's passport on his return to the U.S., and was "freezing" his bank accounts here...