Word: passport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Hungarians, they are relatively free to travel. Not so for others: although the Iron Curtain has crumbled along the entire length of the old East-West divide, many East Europeans find their freedom of movement as curtailed as ever. It is no longer a question of obtaining a passport and an exit permit from a suspicious communist regime. Now the problem for Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians is to obtain visas to the West or even permits to visit one of the other countries in Eastern Europe. Says Andrzej Misiok, a Pole seeking a visa to Greece: "In reality...
...truck and camel. There are pestilential insects everywhere; the breakfast tray comes with a DDT spray can. When Kit isn't complaining about the heat or the stupidity, she is sleeping with the twit. A local prostitute tries to steal Port's wallet, and a loathsome Englishman filches his passport. What other atrocities can he imagine? Perhaps that he will sweat out a typhoid fever in a miserable cell in a Foreign Legion garrison? Or that his wife will lose her wits as the love slave of the sheik of Araby...
...most reclusive countries in the world, North Korea has long been closed to even the faintest whisper of an alien idea. Yet when a British passport holder recently went to the North Korean embassy in Beijing and expressed a desire to visit the Hermit Kingdom, he was warmly received. London does not have diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, he was reminded, but he was more than welcome to come in. Not only would the authorities take care of his visa; they would also confirm plane tickets, provide him with a hotel and meals, set him up with a guide. And since...
...Israeli police did not stop to ask me for identification, and I had no time to pull out my American passport. I did not have time to say a word. Since then I have heard of many cases where foreign travelers have been indiscriminately beaten by Israeli soldiers or police who mistook the foreigners for Palestinians. Strephon Treadway Harvard Law School...
...discovery: neighborhoods rejoined, old acquaintances renewed. Children frolic among the abandoned guard towers of the former death strip, the resident rabbits scampering for cover -- the only victims of unification. Traffic jams form at former crossing points, while new openings just blocks away go unused. Occasionally, a confused motorist stops, passport in hand, waiting for border guards to emerge from buildings that are locked and shuttered forever. Old habits die hard...