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...length of the old East-West divide, many East Europeans find their freedom of movement as curtailed as ever. It is no longer a question of obtaining a passport and an exit permit from a suspicious communist regime. Now the problem for Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians is to obtain visas to the West or even permits to visit one of the other countries in Eastern Europe. Says Andrzej Misiok, a Pole seeking a visa to Greece: "In reality I am not much freer than before...
...same time, a growing number of West European countries are beginning to tighten controls along their eastern frontiers. Austria has dispatched troops to patrol borders once sealed by barbed-wire fences and watchtowers. | Germany is reviewing security arrangements along the Polish frontier, while promising to speed up visa issuance for legitimate travelers. "The worry for Western Europe is not just that the reforms will fail and the region will slip into anarchy and chaos," says Karsten Voigt of Germany's Social Democratic Party. "Even if reforms succeed, it will mean thousands of factories closed down and millions out of work...
...North Korean embassy in Beijing and expressed a desire to visit the Hermit Kingdom, he was warmly received. London does not have diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, he was reminded, but he was more than welcome to come in. Not only would the authorities take care of his visa; they would also confirm plane tickets, provide him with a hotel and meals, set him up with a guide. And since so many countries regard a North Korean stamp as a stigma, they would give him a detachable visa that he could throw away as soon as he left...
...stylish to be interested in the world." The magazine, published by the Newhouse empire, which also owns GQ, purports to offer some hard-hitting pieces. But Doug Vaughan's story about rooting through the confiscated files of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega breaks little news beyond some eye-popping Visa-card bills. Maura Sheehy's portrait of Fox TV as the "ninja" fourth network is hyped with adrenal adjectives and metaphors to the point of incoherence. Details shows glints of awareness of an America beyond white male plutocrats. But when it is not trendy, it is often aggressively vulgar...
Being a State Department bureaucrat has its occasional unexpected rewards, including a chance recently to rain on Ted Turner's parade. The flamboyant entrepreneur and cable mogul wanted State to issue a visa to Jose Ramon Fernandez, the Cuban Vice President who oversees athletic development and competition, so that the official could accompany Cuba's delegation to the Goodwill Games in Seattle. No dice. A presidential directive bars Cuban Communist Party members from traveling to the U.S. for anything other than official business. The Goodwill Games, which have been plugged so insistently on Turner's TV outlets that some...