Word: visa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan got a three-month diplomatic visa from the U.S. embassy in Moscow, got ready to hit Washington some time next week for a two-week visit. Presumed intention: to feel out the firmness of U.S. policy on West Berlin and to explore a possible deal for all of Germany, perhaps on the basis of Communist or neutralist disengagement schemes...
...Tsun got a British visa, bought a ticket on a regular British European Airways flight to London. Last week he went to the airport, fearing that at any moment he would be turned back. But the Polish officials passed him, and Fu Tsun flew safely on to London. Friends hid him out in the country, but he was willing to answer a few questions from the press. What did he think of things in China? Said Fu Tsun tactfully: "Whatever people may think of Mao Tse-tung's policies, I say he is the greatest modern Chinese poet...
...Moscow to minister to the spiritual needs of Americans there. Four priests served in this treaty-made capacity, all of them Assumptionist fathers, a missionary group with a special concern for the churches of the East. In 1955, when the U.S. State Department refused to extend the 60-day visa of the Moscow Patriarchate's Archbishop Boris to permit him to serve as Exarch for North and South America, the Communists retaliated by expelling Assumptionist Father Georges Bissonnette and refusing to grant a visa to his successor, the Rev. Louis F. Dion...
...deadlock was broken when the State Department announced that it had granted a 90-day visa to Archbishop Boris. And last week Father Dion, 44, a native of Worcester, Mass., where he is registrar of Assumption College, had his visa at last, planned to leave...
...Moscow last week came one request that the U.S. promptly granted. Through U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson, the Russians asked for a diplomatic visa permitting Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan to visit the U.S. for a fortnight or so early next month. One of three members of the old Stalin gang (the others: Premier Khrushchev, President Voroshilov) still surviving in the top ranks of the Soviet hierarchy, wily Armenian Mikoyan, 63, will officially be visiting the U.S. as the guest of Ambassador Mikhail A. ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, but Mikoyan's obvious purpose in making the trip is to talk...