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...Genscher to visit the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the Solidarity supporter who was murdered last month. In addition, the Warsaw regime vetoed Genscher's request to lay a wreath at the grave of a German soldier killed in World War II and refused to grant a visa for the visit to the correspondent of Bonn's conservative daily Die Welt...
...last June as Wriston's successor, is a consumer-banking specialist with an affinity for long-shot risks. Reed's hits and misses during his career have both been spectacular. In 1980 and 1981 he showered the country with 26 million letters inviting consumers to apply for Visa cards. Many of them fell into the wallets of poor credit risks, and Citicorp rang up some $75 million in bad debts. Nonetheless, Reed's bold push into consumer banking, which included blanketing New York City with ATMs, was ultimately successful. The bank's consumer division went from...
...bureaus while at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, then worked for Time Inc. in 1970 as editor-translator of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs. He then served as TIME'S Eastern Europe correspondent, and in 1974 was about to become Moscow bureau chief. But he was denied a visa to the Soviet capital "because of his involvement with a second Khrushchev volume, and he took up residence in the U.S. capital instead. "The Soviets had inadvertently done me a great favor," he now reflects. "I had a series of extremely exciting assignments: the State Department during Henry Kissinger...
...meetings, make mass arrests, impose censorship and send the secret police ram paging through the offices of political parties and unions. In addition, the Rev. Ignacio Gutiérrez, a Spanish-born Roman Catholic priest who heads the Vicariate of Solidarity, the most active human-rights organization, had his visa lifted and was permanently banned from returning to Chile after a conference in Rome...
...They wouldn't give me a visa," he says. "Someone [in China] felt they didn't like what I said about China. Today, of course, they have re-evaluated their history and now agree with what I've been saving all along...