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...Visit one of the eleven regional branches of the National Archives (or its parent temple in Washington). This federal service has invaluable census records dating back to 1790, military and pension records from American wars beginning with the Revolutionary, passenger lists of immigrant ships, passport applications, naturalization records, land and bounty claims and much more. The Library of Congress (no branches) has a rich lode of 30,000 American and foreign genealogies. The D.A.R.'s Washington headquarters also has extensive records...
...from New York City, was detained for three days, interrogated by Ugandan police and roughed up; twice he was taken to lonely places by machine gun-toting guards, but each time he was returned to jail. Luckily he managed to throw a piece of paper bearing his name and passport number to a Canadian on the street below. The paper found its way to the West German embassy, which has handled U.S. affairs there since the U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Uganda in 1973. Next day Schwartz was expelled to Kenya...
...Iraqi Passport. That was certainly not the only anomaly in the affair. Even the circumstances of Abu Daoud's arrest in Paris were strange. He had come to the French capital as a member of a high-ranking Palestinian delegation to attend the funeral of Mahmoud Saleh, a former P.L.O. representative who had been gunned down a few days earlier on a Paris street. Traveling on an Iraqi passport issued in the name of Youssef Hanna Raji, Abu Daoud made no effort to disguise his easily recognizable features. He breezed through immigration and checked into...
...gesture calculated to force the issue, Carrillo surfaced three weeks ago-just before the referendum on political reform-at a Madrid press conference. Following 37 years in exile, mostly in France, he said, he had slipped back into Spain in February 1976, after he was refused a legal passport-and had crossed the border several times...
...chartered Aeroflot jet. Once the plane was no longer flying over Soviet territory the official unlocked the cuffs and ex plained that Bukovsky would not be deprived of Soviet citizenship like Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was deported in 1974. Instead, the erstwhile convict was given a Soviet passport val id for five years of travel abroad. This final detail of Kafkaesque bureaucratic procedure amused Bukovsky. Said he: "I can still consider myself a political prisoner-but on holiday...