Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went to dinner with them, then returned to their hotel room at the new harbor-front Sheraton. Six days later he was found in a drugged stupor, wandering in his underwear in the hotel corridor. His only recollection: "I felt very dizzy, and I realized I needed help." His passport and money were gone...
Chip Woods was more elusive. Two days after the kidnaping, he flew into Vancouver, Canada, with a passport identifying him as "Ralph Lester Snider"-the name, it turned out, of a six-year-old child from Santa Clara county who was killed in an auto accident in 1960. Somehow the FBI learned that Woods was going to pick up a package at the general delivery window in a Vancouver post office on July 29. When he arrived, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were waiting...
...courage to write and stage The Crucible. The play was picketed not only by a number of right-wing groups, but also by the American Bar Association on the grounds that its portrayal of the 17th-century Puritan judges was unsympathetic. Ironically, in 1954 Miller himself was denied a passport to attend the Brussels premiere of this very play because the State Department felt he was supporting the Communist movement...
...American embassy, but there were so many people waiting to go inside that I came back in the night and slept in the line until the next day. When I finally got to the inside of the embassy, they told me I needed a lot of papers and a passport, which cost 800 pesos ($72). Most of the other people there were city people who had papers and money. Now I know that the only way for a campesino like me to go to the United States is as a wetback...
...Israeli one, a Jordanian force and a joint army. All three would guard different borders and installations. Every resident of the confederation would have the right to vote for the regional government, and every resident would have the right to choose whether he wants an Israeli or a Jordanian passport. The idea of such a confederation might sound unrealistic, but then so have all the attempts of the past to find a solution. It is a clash between two societies, one emerging from a feudalistic framework and the other deeply rooted in democratic principles. When Jewish and Arab leaders meet...