Word: visaed
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Aleksandr Voronel lost his professorship and was severely harrassed by Soviet police when he applied for a visa to Israel...
...dinner parties, conversation tends to turn to questions about how to get out of the country. Should one try to fly or go by ship? How much will a visa cost? Some government ministers are said to be already packing. Mrs. Thieu, the wife of the President, has already left...
...confusion there was, surprisingly, no censorship or harassment of reporters by the Thieu regime -at least for the moment. Such freedom was a marked change from the secret-police tactic of beating up Western newsmen covering demonstrations, or the possibility that the Information Ministry might not renew the visa of any reporter writing an unfavorable story. It was almost old home week for the press in Saigon. But the shadow of defeat darkened the occasion...
...Quilapayun had to cancel its original tour because a visa that had been promised did not come through will be ancient history by the time the group performs here next Tuesday...
...Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday went by the only word out of the State Department, the bureau that would have to clear the group, was that the waiver is under review and that it takes the bureaucracy a long time to act on visa matters...