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...previous foreign pilgrimages rated this one among the toughest-and costliest. Reporters were expected to pay on arrival, in foreign exchange, for all services that they would need from the Polish agency Interpress. Among the fees: $70 just to get into a room with telephones and telex transmission machines, with further costs for actually using the facilities; up to $150 a night for double hotel rooms or, when they were full, $45 a night for space in a youth hostel; $230 a day for a Ford Granada car and driver; up to $260 to ride in a press bus following...
...makes a Veritas diploma among the most expensive in the country can be seen throughout the 156-page document, where request for payment is a recurring theme. Twice, in fact students are offered the option of tuition via inter bank wiring (Account No. 22270045. Bank of New England. Boston Telex: MERNATINT 940191). The Best education in life is, after all, not free...
...means a surprise. As he noted, wryly and accurately, "We do not believe that Washington counted on any other reaction on our part." But unwilling to let the Soviets monopolize European attention even for 24 hours, the U.S. State Department began composing a point-by-point rebuttal as telex machines were still chattering out the transcript of Gromyko's press conference. Spokesman Alan Romberg handed out the official American response at midday Saturday, in time for it to share evening TV news programs in Western Europe with tapes of the Soviet Foreign Minister's performance...
...civilian, employed by the Defense Ministry, stood before an audience of high school students in Tel Aviv and casually described how he and his colleagues oversee the work of foreign correspondents reporting from Israel. "We hear all their phone calls, check every story they send, and even garble their telex cable transmissions when they move stories that can harm us," the bureaucrat explained. The admission was extraordinary. Although Israel regularly censors reports by domestic and foreign journalists on a broad range of subjects, on the ground that it is necessary to do so to protect national security, officials have persistently...
Israel's policy of censoring stories and international telephone communications is all but unique among democracies. Even in Moscow and Peking, foreign correspondents do not have to submit stories in advance for clearance. In many repressive countries, the disruption of reporters' telephone calls and telex transmissions occurs mainly in war zones or during revolutions. Among the nations that have disrupted correspondents' communications at least occasionally in the past few years: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Burma, Iran, Kampuchea, Poland, the Sudan and the Soviet Union...