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...soon became the most controversial journal in Saigon. He traveled to Paris and called for the withdrawal of foreign troops and the establishment of a neutral provisional government in Viet Nam. Since then, he has had nothing but trouble. Duc was labeled a Communist lackey and denied an exit visa for other overseas trips. Tin Sang has twice been bombed, has had its presses drenched with gasoline and acid and set afire, and its editions have been confiscated 150 times; the latest two crackdowns came only last week. Beyond all that,Duc's house in Vinh Binh was broken...
...radical movements, brought her before a state commission investigating Communism during the McCarthy era. She denounced the commission and refused to testify. "I simply told them that my business was none of their business." In 1962, while attending a disarmament conference in the Soviet Union, she wangled a Chinese visa and visited the mainland...
When the invitation was first issued, few U.S. newsmen bothered to try for visas to accompany the table tennis team, and with good reason. For years, veteran China watchers had become used to requesting visas via periodic cables to Peking and never receiving so much as an answer from the Foreign Ministry. Most had dropped the practice in recent years, assuming it a futile exercise. One of the few to renew their visa requests was NBC's John Rich, who left Shanghai just ahead of Mao's forces in 1949, and has been China watching from Tokyo since...
Approval of visas for Rich, 53, and Roderick, 56, set off a stampede. The Red-run China Travel Service, which issues visas in Hong Kong when Peking approves, was suddenly swamped. From Tokyo, United Press International's Al Kaff desperately tried to telephone Peking for a visa to match A.P.'s coup. To his surprise, he got through to the Foreign Ministry, only to be told politely that no more approvals were being issued for the moment. U.P.I, had to settle for stringer copy and telephoned reports from the U.S. table tennis players...
Late last week the visit of the table tennis team ended, and the visas of some correspondents expired with it. But Rich and Roderick got three-day extensions, and Durdin's visa will last a full month. Observers were encouraged that China had opened its borders to veterans who had known the country before Mao, and might be less easily snowed by tour guides than younger...