Word: passport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese government will do almost anything to keep such information secret. Last month Wu was detained after trying to cross into China with his U.S. passport at a remote customs post on the Kazakhstan border. Chinese authorities waited until July 8 to announce his arrest on charges that will include disclosing "state secrets" to "foreign organizations," a crime that could carry the death penalty. Howell, who was returned to Kazakhstan after being detained with Wu for a few days, says he didn't resent the guards. "Harry kept saying, 'They're just doing their job. They're not bad people...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] is a self-governing body, and Dean Lewis is one of those enfranchised faculty members, and so he has a passport to speak to any educational issue that falls within the purview of the faculty," said Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59. "I think faculty members have sometimes felt that deans who came up on the administrative side did not have such a passport...
...recalled, ostensibly to discuss a new assignment. Four days after that, his wife Raisa and their two children were hustled out of Bonn after being told that they were being given a new apartment in Moscow. En route to the airport, Raisa realized she'd forgotten her passport. When she returned to the apartment, she saw that it had been ransacked by the kgb. Varenik didn't have time to alert the CIA before he left, and the first the Americans knew of trouble was when he missed the next scheduled meeting. The CIA had given Varenik secret writing materials...
Lourdes, like a Chekhovian heroine yearning for Moscow, has dreams only of leaving for the U.S., and this American may be her passport out. But Richard already has a wife, and in order to rescue his Eve he has to enlist the support of an acquaintance, a dull young English schoolteacher named Hugo, in a marriage of convenience. How the plans go awry and what consequences await the sultry Lourdes in provincial England provide one of the novel's darker, not to say drizzlier, ironies. As another character remarks, "In Cuba, you believe everything or you believe nothing. Because everything...
...also appears to engage in the classic--and lucrative--cult practice of taking over its members' financial assets. One 35-year-old who has since left the group says that when he became a devout follower, he was required to surrender his passport to the group and donate all his cash and belongings. He also recounts working under near slave-labor conditions at a sect project on the southern island of Kyushu. "Their strategy is to wear you down and take control of your mind," he says. "They promise you heaven, but they make you live in hell...