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...same time sounding out Communist diplomats about his chances of getting into North Viet Nam. For months he heard nothing. Then, in the middle of last month's furor over charges that the U.S. had bombed civilian sections of Hanoi, Salisbury got the go-ahead. Picking up a visa at North Viet Nam's diplomatic mission in Paris, he flew to the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh, there boarded a Hanoi-bound flight with members of the three-nation International Control Commission whose job it is to supervise the 1954 agreement that divided Viet Nam. He arrived in North...
...embargo remains in effect, Washington recently modified its ban on travel to Cuba and announced that U.S. citizens may now get passports to visit the island for "cultural" and business reasons-provided that the Czechoslovakian embassy, Castro's diplomatic go-between in the U.S., agrees to issue a visa...
...Czech government became aware of Kazen-Komarek's whereabouts and occupation when he applied for a visa in June. He had planned to fly to Czechoslavakia to visit his mother, who was ill, but later decided against...
Zhivkov obviously means business. To bring in foreign currency, his government has relaxed visa requirements, and Western tourists are flocking in. In the capital of Sofia, where the population has almost tripled (to 800,000) since 1940, new Western-style apartment buildings are sprouting, and Western cigarettes and liquor are becoming plentiful. Three weeks ago, Bulgaria even staged an international trade fair, buying more than $45 million worth of Western wares...
Carrot Friends. The other case involved a different kind of mike. In 1961, Frank John Mrkva, State Department visa courier and the son of Czechoslovakian-born parents, met Zdenek Pisk, then a third secretary at the Czech embassy in Washington. Aft er a number of casual conversations with Mrkva (whose surname means "Carrot"), Pisk became confident that Carrot was ready for uprooting. Pisk arranged a private dinner, suggested that Mrkva, now 38, might want to help the Czech Communist cause by doing a little spying. "Knock off the patriotism business," snapped Mrkva. "I'm interested in money." Pisk offered...