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...Days. Mao's dilemma is similarly reflected by Novelist-Journalist Alberto Moravia, whose Italian passport and sympathy for the revolution allowed him 22 days in China during 1967. "Mao's great enemy is not the United States," he writes in The Red Book and the Great Wall, "but fundamental Chinese Confucian conservatism. The danger is that, once Mao is dead, his thought will be embalmed and his figure deified...
...McGuire takes out his crumpled, purplish U.S. passport, which has $10 bills folded between the pages. He flips past an April 22 exit stamp from Rwanda, and points out a page filled with exit and entry stamps from Lisbon, with no intervening destination stamps--the souvenirs of his clandestine flights. Then, with a little chuckle, he stuffs it back into his flight suit pocket. It won't stay there long, you might guess...
...industry and hold much of the 44% of the country's land owned by foreigners. Swaziland uses the South African rand as a medium of exchange. South African customs inspectors control the flow of its commerce. Air travelers to Swaziland must even pass through the Johannesburg airport passport controls. Despite their dislike of South Africa's harsh apartheid racial policy, the newly independent Swazis are in no position to resist big brother's embrace...
...Czechoslovak news papers declaring: "I am ashamed of my country. I would be ashamed of my people if I thought that they really did unanimously approve the policy of the [Soviet] Central Committee." A week later Marchenko was arrested. He is now serving a one-year prison sentence for "passport violations...
...McGuire takes out his crumpled, purplish U.S. passport, which has $10 bills folded between the pages. He flips past an April 22 exit stamp from Rwanda, and points out a page filled with exit and entry stamps from Lisbon, with no intervening destination stamps--the souvenirs of his clandestine flights. Then, with a little chuckle, he stuffs it back into his flight suit pocket. It won't stay there long, you might guess...