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...nowhere more so than in Japan. Consider the case of Herbert Freidman, an American businessman living in Japan. One day last month, he climbed aboard a plane at Tokyo airport and flew off to Okinawa, dutifully surrendering to a customs agent the alien-registration card he carries. His passport was stamped to show that Freidman was leaving the country. According to procedure, his passport would be stamped again when he returned to Tokyo, and he would be issued a new alien-registration card...
...easy exit. Rather than questions at the end of the East German Autobahn, Danforth's passport was quickly stamped, and he was allowed to drive unhindered into West Germany...
...self-deprecations. In recalling his youthful days as an expatriate in Paris, Baldwin man ages to equate his attitude toward persecuted Algerians with the attitude of white Americans toward their black countrymen. His feeling of kinship with the Algerian cause was accompanied by the troubling fact that his American passport granted him special privileges...
...traditions and Jewish religion. (To cite a recent example, a Moscow radio commentator, speaking about expulsion of Israelis from Uganda, claimed that Israelis had robbed Uganda in the same way that their ancestors had robbed trustful Egyptians ) Here recognition of Jewish nationality exists merely as an entry in a passport...
Irving and Nessen tried to hammer out their own deal with the U.S. Attorney. They promised to cooperate provided the prosecutors could per suade the Swiss government to soften passport-forgery and bank-fraud charges against Irving's wife Edith. No one was quite certain whether Irving was acting out of chivalry or more self-serving motives. It was possible, some investigators said, that Irving hoped to ease Edith's legal burdens before she broke down and told her own side of the story, partly in anger over her husband's now famous affair with Danish Singer...