Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thousands of my friends are going," observed ponytailed John Segall, 18. as he queued up to get his passport in New York. "No one will be left in the city this summer except the junkies who couldn't rip off enough people to get the bread to go." Said Conrad Young, 23, as his plane circled London's Heathrow Airport for a landing: "Maybe I'll go to Switzerland. Or maybe Spain. Anyplace with lots of young people. Just follow the crowds...
...travel cheaply. Travel in Laos cannot be done by land. Almost all of the countryside is under the control of the Pathet Lao or in question, and thus not safe to travel in for anyone with as questionable attributes as white skin, no knowledge of Lao, and a passport issued by the United States or one of its allies...
...involvement of the North Koreans in the Ceylon insurrection dramatized the extent to which guerrilla training has become an international activity. Today, with the help of a foreign "scholarship" and perhaps a forged passport, a young, aspiring revolutionary from any of several dozen countries may travel halfway round the world to learn the use of rifles and machine guns, the making of Molotov cocktails and the art of political kidnaping. Then, after several months or even years of training, he returns to his home country to put his education into practice...
Eight Chinese diplomats approached passport control in Paris' Orly Airport last week. They wanted to take a Pakistan International Airlines flight to Shanghai. But police immediately saw that something was wrong. One of the Chinese, who appeared to be in a stupor and whose body seemed suspiciously bulky, was being half carried by two of his countrymen. The police, who had been alerted by French intelligence to watch for suspicious Chinese behavior, insisted that the man be examined immediately by an airport physician. The examination established that the Chinese had been injected with powerful sedatives, which had lowered...
...challenged the constitutionality of the McCarran Act in the Supreme Court case, is no longer an American. Son of an American mother and an Italian father, Bellei, now 31, was born and brought up in Italy. As a youth, he visited the U.S. on his mother's passport; in 1952, the State Department issued Bellei his own passport, which was routinely approved until his 23rd birthday. Then, in 1966, the American consul in Rome informed him that he had lost his U.S. citizenship. Now living in Rome, Bellei spent years fighting for his right to be an American...