Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Vesco goes on establishing himself in Costa Rica. Crateloads of furniture have arrived in San José from I.O.S. offices in France. Vesco has been granted a provisional Costa Rican passport and, according to Figueres, he intends to renounce U.S. citizenship. He has rented a chalet in a wooded area on the outskirts of San José and parks his private plane -a Boeing 707-at the San José airport. Yet for Vesco, the relentlessly ambitious son of a Detroit auto worker, San José, with no stock market and less than a dozen banks, is a pale...
...Americans often have trouble enough finding a doctor when they suddenly become ill. But their difficulties are compounded overseas where, once located, a doctor may well not understand English. To help travelers find the right man, the Manhattan-based World Medical Association offers the International Medical Directory. The passport-sized booklet lists the names and addresses of English-speaking physicians-or of medical organizations likely to know where to find them-in 223 cities in 79 countries, from such popular tourist spots as France and Denmark to such little-visited lands as Botswana and Burma. The directory...
...very ordinary young man-quiet, soberly dressed, dull. He did not take much interest in politics, or international affairs, or indeed anything except sex and the weather. His name was Franco, and his passport said he was a European. It did not sound as odd as it had done eleven years earlier; in 1973 no one would have thought of introducing himself at a cocktail party with "Hello, I'm a European." People were French, or English, or German, or Italian. Never European. The only people who used the word in those days were Americans, who invested geographical proximity...
...immigration policy is prompted by a growing fear on the government's part that other African nations, notably Kenya, may soon begin expelling their Asians who hold British passports.* Weighing the potential outcry at home against Britain's moral obligations to the Asians abroad, Heath has decided to bend to political reality. Thus the rules will reduce to an "inescapable minimum"-specifically, 3,000 people per year-any further emigration of British passport holders from so-called "new Commonwealth" nations, all of which have black or Asian majorities, and a total of about 241,000 such passport holders...
...miles apart. On Cyprus, an Arab businessman named Hussein Bashir, 33, flipped off the light in his second-floor room in Nicosia's Olympic Hotel and climbed into bed. An explosion suddenly wrecked the room and killed Bashir. Although he traveled on a Syrian passport and headed a company called Palmyra Enterprises, Bashir is believed to have been the representative to Cyprus of Al Fatah, the principal Palestinian guerrilla organization. A bomb, apparently one that could be detonated electronically from a distance, had been concealed under Bashir's bed. An unidentified assassin had watched for the light...