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...Union of South Africa has not yet granted a passport to Lewis P. Nkosi, an African journalist who was awarded a Nieman Fellowship this year, according to Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships...
...best efforts to find out whether Mr. Nkosi can get a passport have failed," said Lyons. The Farfield Foundation, which supported Nkosi's fellowship, inquired without success at the South African Consulate for a clarification of his status...
Nkosi had expected to arrive in Cambridge by late September, and still hopes that, he will eventually receive a passport. He is a young journalist in Johannesburg, where he has sharply criticized the Government's apartheid policy...
...would have been wise to recognize that satire on those countries is best left to natives. He does better in what the Soviets had taught Roitschwantz to call "that criminal country, Palestine." By now, he is a "miserable leaf chased by a hundred-year-old storm," his "body a passport," a palimpsest of bruises, and he is on his way to his 19th jail. In Palestine he finds a people who "wanted to organize a stock market in a Biblical manner," Jews beat other Jews for smoking on the Sabbath, and he cannot understand the dirty songs in a nightclub...
...hastiest state visit the U.S. had ever laid on. But, explained a State Department official, "it isn't important that several members of the delegation had no visas, that several others had no international health certificates, that one lost his passport and that the military aide has only one uniform. Here's a man who is dealing cold turkey with the whole world-from kings to carpetbaggers-and with very little preparation...