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Increasing acts of terrorism round the world were bound to make travel tougher. Now the U.S. has clamped down on unwelcome visitors by requiring visas of anyone who visits the country, even in transit; Canadians alone are exempted. On its face, the decision seems inhospitable. Up to now, anyone who felt like it could spend ten days in the U.S. without having to get a visa...
...American Government has reasons for changing its policy. According to U.S. officials, in the last year some 5,000 persons have entered the U.S. supposedly in transit, only to disappear. When they reappear, many have a complete set of forged papers, including birth certificates and passports. Not all are foreigners who merely wish to beat the immigration quotas. There is evidence that some have planned attacks on diplomats at the U.N. Representatives of any country with determined enemies are targeted for trouble: Israel, the Soviet Union, Egypt, Lebanon. Such is the ecumenical spirit of terrorism...
...government has drawn up a "red list" of cities that the Asians are advised to avoid. The city of Leicester even went so far as to place advertisements in Kampala newspapers, telling Asians to stay away because of crowded conditions. The old military bases that have been readied as transit housing now threaten to become full-fledged refugee camps; at the Stradishall R.A.F. base, Asians were crammed 18 to a room...
...highways pouring cars into their already congested streets. This year the Senate decided that the priorities need some reordering. In its version of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1972, the Senate allows cities to use their $800 million share of the now $5 billion trust fund for mass transit, including rail systems. Last week, highway opponents were working feverishly to get a similar provision into the House version of the bill...
...budget. Most of the money would have to come out of welfare as well as Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs, which run the gamut from Headstart to VISTA. Direct federal grants-in-aid to states and cities for such purposes as hospital construction and rapid-transit improvement would also be in jeopardy. Some likely candidates for deep reductions: manpower training, urban renewal and the Model Cities program...