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Perils of Exodus. Like other Soviet citizens, Jews are forbidden to emigrate freely. Even applying for an exit visa is regarded as gross ingratitude, if not downright disloyalty, to the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, some 40,000 Jews during the past three years have dared to risk official wrath by filing applications to leave for Israel. Only a bare trickle of about 2,000 a year have been allowed to leave. Almost all of those who have applied for visas have lost their jobs and been subjected to intimidation and insults by police and neighbors...
Seavers is currently receiving a long-term multiple entry and reentry visa to Cambodia for the rather low price of $40. In return, when the Chinese private secretary of a high-ranking Cambodian official goes to Singapore shortly-to price goods which will be purchased once the aid money is approved-Seavers has arranged for him to be "taken care of" by his Chinese partners...
...seems likely that the Soviet authorities either had denied him a visa for Sweden or had refused to guarantee that he could return home after the ceremony. In spite of the ban on his writings and the abuse poured on him in Russia, friends in Moscow report that Solzhenitsyn considers it "unthinkable" that he could live or work anywhere in the world except in his beloved country...
...Soviet Ambassador to East Germany, has told Rush on those occasions that the East Germans sentenced Huessy to the unusually long term because they regard him as an especially dangerous provocateur. Even so, Abrasimov hinted, Huessy and the others might be sprung quickly if the U.S. would issue a visa to East German Foreign Minister Otto Winzer to attend the United Nations' 25th anniversary session in Manhattan. Abrasimov also proposed a trade of prisoners, and supplied a list of Communist agents now held...
Charging the State Department with sex discrimination, Frances Knight has hired lawyers and threatens to file a grievance against Secretary of State William Rogers, take her case before the Civil Service Commission, and demand formal hearings. Among other things, she points out that the head of the Visa Office, an equivalent agency in the same bureau of the State Department, has a foreign-service grade corresponding to the top civil-service rank. That official, of course...