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Thursday night a brief cable arrived at the U.S. embassy in Paris. The cable, an innocuous statement, said the Immigration and Naturalization Service grants the Chilean singing group Quilapayun permission to enter the U.S. on a cultural exchange visa...
...Moscow, Victoria's request for a three-month exit permit to visit Tate met with stony silence from the Soviet visa office and disapproval from the secret police. Hoping that publicity would jog the authorities, Victoria turned to the Western press. She told reporters that she fears her career is in jeopardy. Although she was the cover girl of Soviet Screen last March, her picture has been removed from the official Soviet film-export office in Moscow, and her bosses have grown markedly cool...
...Leningrad. The accused is Vladimir Maramzin, who is charged with disseminating his "anti-Soviet" writings; in fact, he is the author of nonpolitical books for children. If convicted, Maramzin is subject to possibly seven years' imprisonment. Maramzin was arrested last July, right after he visited a Soviet visa office where he applied for emigration to Israel. The secret police arrived in his apartment just as he was beginning to fill out the application forms...
...lovers paid up to $4,500 to glide around the Mediterranean to the personal accompaniment of the likes of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Violinist Alexander Schneider, Flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal and Dancer Rudi Nureyev. Each day the geniuses would entertain the guests. Rostropovich, who left Russia on a two-year visa last May, was the star both on and off stage. He hammed it up on the ship's piano clad in a bathrobe, and when the ship arrived in Istanbul, he went ashore and bought a load of toy instruments, passed them out to his fellow musicians and only...
...gallant Lennon pleaded guilty in London to possession of enough grass for 40 joints in order to avoid, he said, dragging Pregnant Yoko Ono through the courts. But when John and Yoko arrived to live in the U.S. in 1971, John only got a six-month visa-unrenewable, it turned out, because of his conviction. John appealed his fate. Last week the appeal was rejected by the immigration service, and now his lawyers plan to take the case into federal court. If that fails, John, who is now sulking in Los Angeles, still has a prayer. In Manhattan, his estranged...