Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of how Christians would meet the revolutionary changes was at the top of the agenda. Notably absent from the conference were six delegates from China, who had been unable to leave Communist-occupied territory because of "visa trouble." South Korean delegates explained that for Christians in Russian-dominated North Korea, the situation is increasingly serious. Numerous pastors, they said, have been forced to flee south, while others have disappeared altogether...
Last June Newman left for Paris to take a vacation and get married, after Soviet Press Chief Georgi Pavlevich Frantsev promised that there would be no trouble getting a re-entry permit. (Until the regulations were changed last spring, such a permit had been automatically issued with the exit visa.) But when Newman tried to return to Moscow three months ago, he found the door shut. Last week the Herald Tribune reluctantly announced the closing of its vacant Russian office. That left just five U.S. correspondents in Moscow,* about half the number that was there when Reporter Newman arrived...
Said bitter Correspondent Newman: "The purpose of the new visa system is ... to exclude an accredited correspondent without resorting to the clumsy device of expelling him on trumped-up charges of espionage." Then, in the "fresh air" of Paris, Newman began a 15-installment, uncensored report on life in Russia...
...When You Want to Go . . ." "I've got a visa to Russia," he told the men at the Soviet Intourist Agency in Helsinki. "I want a ticket. How do I go? By boat? By train?" The Russians scratched their heads. "Where I come from," mused Ed, "when people want to go some place, they go." The Russians asked who he was. "I told them," says Ed, "that I was the most important man in the world, an American taxpayer." The Russians got him an airplane ticket...
When Ed showed up at the U.S. Embassy, the staff there shook their heads and bet him he wouldn't get an exit visa until Christmas, if then. But Ed Bowling knows his way around, wherever he is. He got his visa O.K. in eight days and flew back to Helsinki. Last week Ed landed on Hoosier soil again with 13 samples of vodka, and gave his wife Myrtle a big hug. "They say that Moscow is the heaven of the Soviet," said Ed. "Well, if that's heaven...