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...left Shanghai just ahead of Mao's forces in 1949, and has been China watching from Tokyo since 1962. Rich sent off what he called his "umpteenth cable," routinely requesting permission to enter China. Associated Press Tokyo Bureau Chief Henry Hartzenbusch did the same on behalf of John Roderick, who interviewed Mao when he was a guerrilla fighter in Northern China during the 1940s, and has been the A.P.'s chief China watcher in Tokyo since 1959. To their astonishment, the Foreign Ministry replied promptly for the first time ever: Come ahead...
Approval of visas for Rich, 53, and Roderick, 56, set off a stampede. The Red-run China Travel Service, which issues visas in Hong Kong when Peking approves, was suddenly swamped. From Tokyo, United Press International's Al Kaff desperately tried to telephone Peking for a visa to match A.P.'s coup. To his surprise, he got through to the Foreign Ministry, only to be told politely that no more approvals were being issued for the moment. U.P.I, had to settle for stringer copy and telephoned reports from the U.S. table tennis players...
Opening the Door. In addition to Rich and Roderick, NBC's Tokyo Operations Manager lack Reynolds was also admitted, along with a two-man Japanese camera-sound crew. From Hong Kong, LIFE'S British-born John Saar and German-born Freelance Photographer Frank Fischbeck were given visas, as was Tillman Durdin, 64, of the New York Times, another old China hand who covered the Sino-Japanese War from Shanghai in the late 1930s and was the Times's Nanking bureau chief in 1948. Rich, Roderick and Durdin all applied for permission to open permanent bureaus in Peking...
...likely that China will go that far yet. But Premier Chou Enlai, who Roderick says remembered him after a lapse of 23 years, had a jovial chat with the journalists. "Mr. Roderick," he said with a smile, "you have opened the door." He promised that more U.S. journalists would be admitted later "in batches." Almost immediately, usually stone-faced officials at Hong Kong's China Travel Service smilingly expressed the hope that other applications to Peking would be successful...
...more staff lawyers-Roderick L. Ireland, the Center's only black attorney, and Mark Yudof-have accepted other jobs for next year, leaving the Center with only four returning lawyers...