Word: visa
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...cozy colony for retired dictators in Ciudad Trujillo is breaking up. Argentina's Juan Perón, who cannot get a U.S. visa, last week reserved space for himself and his young blonde secretary, Isabel Martinez, on a flight from Puerto Rico to Madrid. He canceled out when he could get no assurance of exemption from U.S. immigration and customs during the short stopover in San Juan, but presumably will try again by some other route...
Venezuela's ex-Strongman Marcos Pérez Jiménez has already moved his wife and four daughters to four $60-a-day suites in Miami Beach's Sans Souci Hotel, has a visitor's visa that will let him enter the U.S. any time. His No. 2 man, former Security Police Chief Pedro Estrada, is lying low somewhere in the U.S., having entered on an immigrant's visa...
...subversion, moral turpitude. Neither Pérez Jiménez nor Estrada is anywhere near broke; the strongman is said to have squirreled away $250 million. Neither has Communist or Fascist ties, nor has either plotted against the succeeding government (the ground for denying Perón a U.S. visa). Neither is technically guilty of moral turpitude, i.e., convicted of a crime. Both reportedly expect to settle in or near Washington...
Boilers Out. From Jan. 3, when he arrived in Caracas on a 36-hr, visa (later extended), Rio-based Tad Szulc (pronounced Schultz) filed the most detailed daily newspaper coverage of the off-again-on-again revolution to come out of Venezuela. With help from Caracas news sources cultivated in two years of covering South America for the Times, ex-U.P.man Szulc, 31, not only stayed on top of the story, but used every trick in the newsman's kick to ram his dispatches past the unsuspecting censors. By telephone from Caracas this week, Correspondent Szulc told...
Families adopting children through the Holts pay a fee of $343, which includes adoption, visa and transportation costs plus $15 for a "home study." The Holts hire a private investigation agency to conduct the home study to be sure the applicants can take care of the youngsters, and that they are churchgoing Protestants (they refer Roman Catholic and Jewish requests to other agencies). Biggest difficulty: most Negro families want girls, but there are not enough Negro-Korean baby girls to go around...