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...Poland's generals hoped to seal off the country from the outside world, they underestimated the determination of Western journalists. Dispatches and film continued to trickle out of the country, smuggled by departing tourists, sympathetic Poles and the occasional journalist whose visa had expired. The risks were high. Automobile border checks were rigorous; outgoing rail passengers ran a gauntlet of Polish and East German interrogation and baggage checks. Film, camera equipment and video cassettes were confiscated. Anyone suspected of trying to leave with written reports or pictures was threatened with jail...
...that passed word of the Kremlin's decision to Alexeyeva that she could go to the U.S., thus halting Sakharov's fast. Alexeyeva, who married Semyonov by proxy last June, had been previously denied a visa to leave for the U.S. On Saturday, Alexeyeva boarded a train to visit the Sakharovs in the industrial city of Gorky, where the couple has been living in exile for the past 23 months...
...government newspaper Izvestia published a tiny news item on the affair. The article, in its entirety, said: "In connection with the fact that the parents of Y.K. Alexeyeva have withdrawn their objections to her leaving the Soviet Union, a decision has been taken to grant her an exit visa by way of exception." It was the first announcement to the Soviet public that Sakharov had won his battle with the Kremlin...
...Austria reimposes visa requirements on Poles, cutting off the principal avenue of escape for Poles seeking to defect to the West...
Some agents say consular personnel have made a million-dollar business out of the illegal sale of U.S. visas-and are getting away with it, largely because State Department higher-ups are terrified of a scandal. In rebuttal, State Department officials insist that they are investigating 40 to 50 cases of suspected visa malfeasance, though only two employees have been prosecuted in the past four years...