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...higher-education institute but was expelled from the organization and the school when he spoke out against the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was Jewish and had applied to emigrate, he said, but his parents were influential party members who opposed his departure and blocked his exit visa. He always wore a shabby old U.S. Army fatigue jacket. Reporters called him the "urban guerrilla...
Lugar's limited plan for sanctions reflects his cool-headed pragmatism: he calls for rescinding the landing rights of South African Airways, closing visa offices in U.S. consulates throughout South Africa, and freezing bank assets of South Africans who have begun to transfer their savings to the U.S. in anticipation of a flight from a civil war in their country. The Senator theorizes that through such measures the U.S. could say to the troubled nation's white elite, "You're going to have to deal with your own problems in South Africa and get some talks started there...
CONSULATES. Proposals to end visa services at U.S. consulates in three South African cities are aimed at the same white travelers, who would have to leave their country to pick up visas before catching flights to the U.S. It would be a nuisance that would have little effect on blacks...
...also the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma: this is the "Burmese way to socialism." In order to work out such a complex destiny, its leaders basically closed the country from its independence after World War II until, in the seventies, a 24-hour tourist visa was instituted. Now tourists are allowed in for seven days--the longest, busiest week of your life...
SECURITY. To give the police more power to combat terrorism, the National Assembly has recently adopted measures that created a special antiterrorist unit and allowed random identity checks and detention of suspects for up to four days without charges. Security legislation passed last week tightened visa requirements. Police also gained the power to bar foreigners at the border and expel immigrants suspected of criminal associations...