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...cover-ups of the 1942 Bengal famine and was the first to report the border skirmishes that led to the 1962 war with China. With pugnacious Irani as its managing director, the Statesman also criticized Gandhi's emergency measures. In return, the government has confiscated Irani's passport, forced the paper to miss several editions through censorship delays and tried to impound one of the Statesman's presses...
...Jiryis' visa was not renewed because his application falsely indicated that he had been born in the Sudan, whose passport he carries. The State Department added, however, that "from a foreign policy standpoint, we do not believe it a propitious moment for the P.L.O. to establish an office in Washington...
This system has been enforced by the pass laws; in the newly independent Transkei, it will be enforced by the Transkei passport. Blacks must get special permission to leave the homeland for outside employment, signing up for contract labor with large firms. Blacks who try to organize against their employers or against the state can be sent back to the homeland without a hearing, their pass rescinded. It is this system that keeps wages in South Africa for semi-and unskilled labor so low that American companies investing there receive a profit rate of almost 20 per cent overall...
...went to dinner with them, then returned to their hotel room at the new harbor-front Sheraton. Six days later he was found in a drugged stupor, wandering in his underwear in the hotel corridor. His only recollection: "I felt very dizzy, and I realized I needed help." His passport and money were gone...
Chip Woods was more elusive. Two days after the kidnaping, he flew into Vancouver, Canada, with a passport identifying him as "Ralph Lester Snider"-the name, it turned out, of a six-year-old child from Santa Clara county who was killed in an auto accident in 1960. Somehow the FBI learned that Woods was going to pick up a package at the general delivery window in a Vancouver post office on July 29. When he arrived, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were waiting...