Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduate who drives a cab; the B.A. in marketing who makes $3.50 an hour in a party-favors store; the Ph.D.s who work as stewardesses, fishermen, welders, bank tellers. All bear witness to the death of the deeply ingrained American belief that a college diploma is a semi-automatic passport to a high-paying job and a fulfilling career. As a Wellesley senior puts it, "After college, there is no free lunch...
...country discovers valuable ore just beyond its borders. They hire mercenaries to lead African troops in an effort to rearrange the border. A down-and-out fugitive, our hero, is waylaid in French Somaliland (he is forced to leave Greece for getting mixed up in a pornography racket) with passport problems. He meets a "businessman" and when effusively drunk he brags of a non-existent background in soldiering. Before he knows it he is recruited and clawing through the jungle with a bunch of jingoistic thugs. When I read about the British mercenaries commissioned to battle the MPLA in Angola...
When victimized by the McCarthy era witch hunts, he stood tall before the House Un-American Activities Committee, defied their attempt to limit his constitutional rights, and mocked their pretensions to patriotism. To silence him, the government revoked his passport, branded him a subversive, and in effect forced him to leave the U.S. in order to gain employment. In short, the workings of American democracy were such that an internationally known artist and political activist was turned into an unperson in his own country...
Burly Bodyguards. For his part, Vesco says he has torn up his American passport, but he refuses to make the formal declaration before a consul that is required to renounce U.S. citizenship. "Sure they would like me to walk in there," says Vesco. "There are quite a few cases of U.S. officials kidnaping and torturing people in Latin American countries." Vesco's $500,000 home in a San José suburb is surrounded by high walls with TV cameras mounted atop each corner. He rarely ventures outside without burly bodyguards, who often tote submachine guns. Recently a Vesco entourage...
...dragnet that followed, police from a dozen countries put together a fairly complete profile of Carlos without ever being able to find him. In a satchel which Carlos had left with a friend in London's Bayswater, they found a passport and a photograph, along with a list of 500 prominent names apparently targeted for kidnaping or assassination, including Playwright John Osborne, his actress wife Jill Bennett and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. In Paris, police discovered an apartment with a nearly complete ammunition dump of dynamite, submachine guns and homemade bombs, along with equipment to make counterfeit documents. There...