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...question period after the talk, Matthews said that the U.S. has "built our own iron curtain around Cuba, in not letting teachers and students visit the island." He added that the New York Times has been unable to obtain a visa to send a correspondent to Cuba
...Spotting the success Western banks were having by talking about "your friendly banker." Ho began to woo the small savers who had been overlooked by the older banks in Hong Kong. Like Tammany ward heelers in the 1870s, Hang Seng men greeted incoming refugees, helped to straighten out their visa and legal problems and to find them homes. Today, Hang Seng sometimes seems to be one big Chinese mutual aid society devoted to sending mourners to its clients' funerals and helping clients' children choose the proper Western university from a Hang Seng-published catalogue. But it also offers...
...United Nations forces against Tshombe's Katanga in support of the central Congo government. Around U.N. lounges, at luncheon clubs, in mailings to Congressmen, Struelens protested the U.N. action, spread stories about U.N. atrocities in Katanga. Then, all of a sudden, the State Department canceled Struelens' visa...
Belated Discovery. Officially, the department cited a technicality: it had just discovered that the visa it had issued Struelens did not permit him to serve as a foreign agent in the U.S. Actually, Struelens had registered as such an agent when he first arrived. State hinted at deportation, then said he could stay until August of 1962, when the visa normally would have expired-but it was obvious he would...
Some, however, think State is going too far. When Struelens' visa was first canceled, the American Civil Liberties Union protested: "The State Department faces the charge of censorship. In our democratic country, which depends so much on an informed public opinion, all channels of communication must be kept open." Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd led a congressional investigation of the Struelens case. Last week his committee released a 568-page report which concluded that Struelens' treatment "constituted a glaring abuse of the visa power and a performance un worthy of the government of a great...