Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet government has denied a passport to a dissident writer who has been invited to speak at Harvard by the Russian Research Center...
Andrei Amalrik, a Russian historian recently returned from exile in Siberia, has complained publicly about his government's refusal to grant him a passport to come to the United States...
Amarlik is one of eight Soviet writers who have been invited by Harvard to speak. Omeljan Pritsak, director of the Ukranian Research Institute, said the institute has invited seven dissident writers to speak, "but none of them has been able to get a passport...
Soviet writers must receive an invitation from another country before their application for a passport will be considered. Ulam said the center is "glad to extend invitations so some writers could apply for a passport...
...addition to being refused a passport. Amarlik has been ordered to leave his home in Moscow. He has been speaking out against the Soviet government, which he said this week claims to help reunite separated families, yet forces people away from their wives...