Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Onion, naturally, the airman dashed off another note, saying, "Here I am, and I'm thinking of joining the Workers' Party," sealed it and stuck it in a mailbox. His chuckles lasted all the way to the Rumanian border, where Soviet border guards, muttering about "passport irregularities," whisked him off his tour bus and back to Kiev. There he was slapped into a guarded hotel room and visited by three suave but hopeful Soviet agents, who, it seemed, read other people's mail. Now, if he really wanted to defect...
...Kill Me." His destination, deep in the jungle, was a camp sur rounded by mine fields and 16 barricades of barbed wire. The Viet Cong held Okamura a prisoner there. They insisted that he was an American, despite his Japanese passport, press accreditations, and a miniature Japanese flag on his knapsack with an inscription in Vietnamese: "I am a Japanese correspondent. Mr. Okamura. Please do not kill me." He learned later that six G.I.s, two Australians and one Filipino were also imprisoned on the post, though he was not permitted to see them. Clusters of artillery shells dropped near headquarters...
...compound the mystery came news that another unhappy Pole had made his way to the West earlier in the month. Using a diplomatic passport to pass through East German border guards, 19-year-old Marek Radomski appeared at West Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie on May 5, told the American MPs on duty that he was "sick of the miserable life under Communism." The young defector's father is an attaché in Poland's embassy in East Berlin and is rumored to be chief of Polish intelligence in all East Germany...
...Young Alexander attended the famous Theresianum School ("much patina, titled schoolmates and scanty meals") and went on to complete his medical studies in 1932. In 1938, foreseeing a second World War, he fled to Rome, where he stubbornly detached himself from the organized world around him. He let his passport expire. He applied for no ration book. He buried himself at the Vatican Museum as a librarian, read nothing printed after the French Revolution. But one day he saw German shells demolish the weathercock on a fine old church and abruptly decided that the time for passive resistance had ended...
...judgment, Zemel argued that the Cuban travel ban, laid down by the State Department in 1961 violates both Kent's due-process requirement and the First Amendment right of free speech. Equally basic, argued Zemel, the Constitution (Article 1) gives Congress sole authority to make laws. The 1926 Passport Act vaguely empowered the State Department to grant passports "under such rules as the President shall designate." But Congress has not specifically empowered the President to impose area restrictions in peacetime. Otherwise, said Zemel, the statute is an unconstitutional delegation of Congress' lawmaking powers...