Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corps diplomatique. The N.L.F. has an ordinary black-and-white French license plate. South Viet Nam maintains a legation in Paris. The North Vietnamese have the lowest diplomatic status available, that of a mission. The N.L.F. has no status at all. Because the N.L.F. delegates all carry North Vietnamese passports for travel purposes, the French helped them avoid the embarrassment of showing a Hanoi passport by admitting them on a laissez-passer...
...Ambassador to France was once the envied passport to a life of gaieté parisienne. Since Charles de Gaulle's relations with Washington turned frosty in the early 1960s, however, the post has had some of the aspects of representing the U.S. in a hostile land. There were those who suspected Lyndon Johnson of shipping Sargent Shriver to the Siberian salt mines when the President picked him to succeed Career Diplomat Charles ("Chip") Bohlen in Paris. Bohlen made no secret of his sense of futility in dealing with the Elysee and the Quai d'Orsay. Undaunted, Shriver...
...Days. Mao's dilemma is similarly reflected by Novelist-Journalist Alberto Moravia, whose Italian passport and sympathy for the revolution allowed him 22 days in China during 1967. "Mao's great enemy is not the United States," he writes in The Red Book and the Great Wall, "but fundamental Chinese Confucian conservatism. The danger is that, once Mao is dead, his thought will be embalmed and his figure deified...
...McGuire takes out his crumpled, purplish U.S. passport, which has $10 bills folded between the pages. He flips past an April 22 exit stamp from Rwanda, and points out a page filled with exit and entry stamps from Lisbon, with no intervening destination stamps--the souvenirs of his clandestine flights. Then, with a little chuckle, he stuffs it back into his flight suit pocket. It won't stay there long, you might guess...
...industry and hold much of the 44% of the country's land owned by foreigners. Swaziland uses the South African rand as a medium of exchange. South African customs inspectors control the flow of its commerce. Air travelers to Swaziland must even pass through the Johannesburg airport passport controls. Despite their dislike of South Africa's harsh apartheid racial policy, the newly independent Swazis are in no position to resist big brother's embrace...