Word: passport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overtime as photographer-translator-copy boy. When the Khmer Rouge, the target of Nixon's B-52s, managed to overrun Phnom Phenh, Schanberg decided not to join the general exodus of Westerners, trusting to the aura of untouchability bestowed upon anyone possessing a Times press card and an American passport. Though Pran possessed neither of these power-laden documents, personal loyalty to Schanberg kept him from joining his family in the exodus; after all, Schanberg would have been helpless without a translator...
...protean John Malkovich is Al Rockoff, a gonzo Associated Press photographer. The craziest of all the leftover journalists, he is also the most aware of the real situation. In the tensest scene of the movie, Rockoff and a British friend try to doctor a British passport to allow Pran to escape. Their last minute failure is ironic enough to wrench a theater-ful of popcorn-filled guts...
...there would be no dancing in Red Square. Since her 1967 defection, Svetlana had frequently denounced the Soviet regime in books and interviews. She called the Bolshevik revolution a tragedy for Russia and characterized Stalin as "a moral and spiritual monster." Repudiating her Soviet citizenship, she ritually burned her passport...
...with rebels who have captured him), the reporter dismisses broad hints about what the fate of a Cambodian native who has served a Western employer might be if the Communists seize power. When he and some fellow journalists (among them the good John Malkovich) try to concoct a false passport the gesture is too little, too late. Pran is sent to forced labor and forced re-education in the countryside, where millions died, while Schanberg, back home, pulls what distant wires he can to rescue...
Tutu is a prophet without honor in his own country. The South African government seized his passport in 1981, and he now needs special permission for his numerous speaking trips outside the country. The government, which is elected by the country's 18% white minority, also conducted an investigation into the liberal South African Council of Churches (membership: 13 million), which Tutu has headed since 1978. That inquiry resulted in a verbal public denunciation that charged the feisty preacher and the council with waging "massive psychological warfare" against the government and sympathizing with outlawed liberation groups such...