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...middle of his work on a doctoral study of black nationalist movements in South Africa and arrested him, charging him with possession of banned leftist newspapers--all more than twenty years old. Ten years ago, when he began to report on prisons, the government confiscated his visa, later restricted it, and it was only last year that he regained the normal traveling privileges that allowed him to accept The globe's invitation...
...government of Chile will release most political prisoners if they have an emigration visa and a sponsor in another country, Moises Mendes, a lay pastor in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, said yesterday...
Despite all the attempts at reform, it remains extremely difficult for an immigrant to struggle through the paper work needed for a visa. Even a fully qualified applicant must stand in line for hours to acquire or submit the proper forms. The would-be immigrant must produce certificates of birth and marriage, of physical and mental health, of approval by his local police. Every foreign-language document must be translated into English by an officially certified translator, then notarized...
...Fascist salute when he went to the Consulate Office and the American Embassy. These all tend to corroborate strong tensions between Pound and the Embassy, but they don't settle the question. Heymann simply adds another theory: Pound may have stayed because U.S. officials refused to grant a visa to Mary, his daughter by his mistress, Olga Rudge...
...Andrei Amalrik, 37, spent five years in prison and exile for the smuggling abroad of his book, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?-largely because the answer was an emphatic no. Last week Amalrik agreed to leave the Soviet Union and accept a permanent exit visa to Israel, although neither he nor his wife are Jewish. A tough and often eccentric loner, Amalrik yielded after nearly a year of harassment that began after his release. After finding the pressures "intolerable," he decided to accept the Soviet government's longstanding offer to give him a visa to Israel...