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Last week, the Administration attempted to carry its sorry policy one step further by delaying the issuance of visas to a group of Nicaraguan officials who were there to visit the Law School. The purpose of the delegation's trip--postponed indefinitely because of the State Department's bureaucratic harassment--was to study the American electoral system in preparation for Nicaragua's 1985 elections. Besides visiting the Law School the Nicaraguans were scheduled to meet with Congressmen in Washington and attend a United Nations conference, all of this part of a 17-nation tour. In an attempt to explain...
...were not averse to letting the Soviets suffer a bit of embarrassment over the incident. They also admit that any attempt to prevent Andrei's departure would have been legally dubious, since he was both a minor in the custody of his parents and held a diplomatic-status visa, which prohibits "any form" of detention. Nevertheless, they felt morally obliged, as one put it, to find out "what was really in his mind." One reason: according to a senior presidential adviser, the FBI told the White House that there was a 95% probability that the letters were genuine...
...with names like Shearson/American Express and Prudential-Bache. By offering a "supermarket" of financial services, these firms permit an investor to pick up stocks along with auto shocks at his local Sears, to write checks and sell shares through a Merrill Lynch Cash Management Account and to have his Visa transactions recorded along with his stock trading...
...Defense of the Revolution (neighborhood block committees) and the police. In May 1979, because I had refused to write a letter disavowing the contents of my books and denouncing those who had published my poetry or who had talked of my situation abroad, my family was refused an exit visa to leave the country and my brother-in-law lost his job. My friends and relatives were forbidden to visit my house...
...officials is limited, contacts with citizens are often monitored, and authorities sometimes react strongly to reporters who displease them. Last year officials temporarily lifted the credentials of a New York Times correspondent; in January the government expelled a U.P.I. reporter on charges of obtaining military intelligence and denied a visa to a BBC correspondent to protest statements made in a documentary...