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Smith had been invited by 27 Senators, led by conservative California Republican S.I. Hayakawa, who felt that he should have an opportunity to present his case to the U.S. public. The State Department had previously granted visas to Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. Nonetheless, State hesitated to give Smith an entry permit, on the ground that the U.S., which has honored the U.N. sanctions, considers his government illegal and has no diplomatic relations with it. After the delay raised editorial eyebrows and congressional hackles, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance ordered that Smith be given a visa...
...action ended a two-week conflict within the Carter administration over the propriety of approving visa applications by leaders of a regime that the United Nations regards as illegal...
...President. There had been the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Additionally, the CIA tried to assassinate Castro in the 1960s, using U.S. mobsters as hit men. There is also some slight circumstantial evidence for the theory. In September 1963 Oswald sought a visa to enter Cuba at the country's consulate in Mexico City. That same year, Oswald was arrested in New Orleans while passing out leaflets in support of a committee called Fair Play for Cuba...
There have been reports that Oswald, when seeking his visa to Cuba, told Cuba's Mexican Consul, Eusebio Azcue, of his plans to kill Kennedy and that the information was relayed to Castro, who did not take it seriously. This was contained in a National Enquirer article by British Journalist Comer Clark. Castro scoffed at the report as fictitious. Azcue recalled Oswald as having been "discourteous" when his visa application was rejected but said that they never talked about Kennedy. Nonetheless, the House committee staff cryptically reported to the Congressmen that "the substance of the Clark article is supported...
...Club is offering checks through an arrangement with Thomas Cook & Sons; they are free, while American Express charges $1 per $100 in checks. Master Charge plans to begin selling traveler's checks, probably by late next year, and will allow them to be charged on its card. Visa is also considering a traveler's check venture...