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Believer in Personalismo. A firm believer in personalismo, Balaguer runs a tight, one-man government, dispensing all patronage, settling all arguments and making all decisions, even down to personally granting and signing every visa. When he needed money for a pet hydroelectric project in the north, Balaguer not only arranged personally for $30 million in U.S. aid, but organized telethons in Santo Domingo and Santiago that raised another $385,000 from Dominicans themselves. A onetime functionary of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer stops short of being a dictator himself. He not only lacks a dictator's broad powers but believes...
...Response. Collingwood first applied for admission to North Viet Nam last spring but got no reply at all. Then last month, CBS got word that Hanoi might indeed welcome him. Why was he chosen over other American TV newsmen who had also sought a visa? "It's my strong impression," Collingwood told his network audience, "that my entry application was accepted because Hanoi wanted to make a move and decided to make it through CBS News and me. Indeed, I think what appeared to be their response to President Johnson's speech was really what they were going...
Neither Dr. Salber or her husband could live comfortably, though, and they were particularly anxious that their four children not grow up in such an atmosphere. When the Harvard School of Public Health offered Dr. Salber's husband a position in 1956, they were able to get their visa and move to the States. A few years after they left the clinic in Durban collapsed...
...gangsters," and demands were made that they be punished. Prime Minister Wilson bitterly assailed the Rhodesian leaders as "essentially evil," and in Rome Pope Paul VI deplored their indifference to "reasons of humanity." At the United Nations, the U.S., which had just denied Smith a visitor's visa, called the executions an "outrageous act." Black African nations unleashed an oratorical storm, calling on Britain and the U.N. Security Council to use force if necessary to prevent more executions...
McKinney's panel also called for an elimination of those immigration and customs laws that "bespeak an unfriendly attitude based upon feelings of suspicion." Besides a general easing of visa requirements, it recommended that U.S. customs agents allow foreign visitors to make oral declarations without, in most cases, having their baggage inspected...