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...Soviet Union last week informed the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) it will grant a visa to Melvyn Nathanson, honorary research fellow in Mathematics, for the current academic year, reversing an August decision to deny him entry into the USSR on the NAS Soviet-American exchange program, a spokesman for NAS said yesterday...
Nathanson, who is on leave from Southern Illinois University, where he is a professor of mathematics, said yesterday the Soviet Union presumably denied him the visa because during a 1972 stay in Moscow, Nathanson befriended a Soviet mathematician who subsequently applied to emigrate...
...will insist on a thorough examination of how the 1975 agreement worked, including a review of the American performance. Specifically, Goldberg will try to persuade Soviet-bloc countries to make family reunions across East-West borders easier by eliminating exorbitant visa fees and reprisals against would-be emigrants-like dismissal from their jobs. He will also propose multiple-entry visas for businessmen trading with Communist countries and elimination of red tape that currently restricts journalists' entry into the Eastern bloc...
...existence of the list did not surprise Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, listed as a class "A" enemy, because he already knew of its existence. According to the Phoenix article, Reischauer could not obtain a travel visa or enter Korea. However, the reason Reischauer has not visited Korea since 1973--despite having received a number of invitations--is not because he was denied a visa. Rather, he said last Sunday he decided not to go to Korea because he was afraid the meaning of his presence there might be "manipulated...
Reischauer said yesterday he heard about the enemies list a few months ago, but added he has been invited by the Korean government to attend meetings in South Korea several times since 1974 and did not think the Park regime would deny him an entrance visa...