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...reliable barometer of Washington's relations with Peking has been the visa window at the U.S. consulate in Taipei. When American diplomatic activity with the mainland Chinese steps up, so do applications from Taiwanese for U.S. residency permits. Right now business is brisk...
...more than 50 people were arrested. The coup was bloodless, the country calm. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin, arriving by road from India without a visa, was quickly admitted at the border. "Good news," remarked an immigration officer. "Now we have the army, and they will give us elections...
...foreign service officers, who had become known as the China Hands, had not been the mission of the United States. On sabbatical from Harvard in 1951, Fairbank, his wife; and his two daughters had already travelled across the country en route to occupied Japan when he was denied a visa because he had been accused of being a cardcarrying Communist. Fairbank spent much of the next few years defending himself, as well as many of his colleagues from the broad-based Institute of Pacific Relations, against allegations that they had been part of a Stalinist conspiracy that had "lost" China...
...Directed again by the composer, with Keene conducting, The Consul remains Menotti's most powerful stage work. Any performance of The Consul lives by its Magda, the woman who batters her heart and soul day after day at the consul's office in search of a visa, and who in the end commits suicide. Menotti has chosen her wisely. Marvellee Cariaga, of the San Diego Opera, has a lustrous mezzo voice, and her ability to convey Magda's growing agony is harrowing...
Mondale will deliver a tough message to South African Prime Minister Vorster: either change the basic apartheid policy or the U.S. will take concrete action against the regime. Among the possible actions: tightening visa requirements, cutting back credits to South Africa from the Export-Import Bank, severing links between U.S. and South African intelligence agencies...