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...sunken-eyed Balkan medico named Stevan Durovic. Now 55, Dr. Durovic got his M.D. at Belgrade in 1930, was a medic in the Yugoslav army when captured by the Italians in World War II. Thanks to a heart condition, P.O.W. Durovic was allowed to leave Italy on a Vatican visa in 1942 for Peron's Argentina...
...welfare activities. In 1955, when offered repatriation with 21 other Americans, he refused. Last March the Communists announced that Bishop Walsh, 69, had been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for espionage and conspiracy. His brother, Judge William Concannon Walsh, 70, who still lives in Cumberland, applied for a visa to visit him. One morning early in July, a cable from Peking granted the request...
After the Russians captured U-2 Pilot Francis G. Powers last May 1, both his wife and his parents asked the Soviet embassy in Washington for permission to go to Moscow to see him. With the baffling arbitrariness that so often characterizes Soviet officialdom, the Russians granted a visa only to Powers' father Oliver, who runs a shoe repair shop in Norton, Va. Powers' wife Barbara, 24, spent three anxious months importuning the U.S. State Department for help, pleading with Soviet embassy officials, even sending a personal appeal to Nikita Khrushchev...
...last week walked a tired-faced women, Barbara Powers, 24, wife of ill-fated U-2 Pilot Francis Powers, who will be tried this month in Moscow for espionage. When Barbara emerged, she looked tireder still. She had been hoping for some word on her request for a Soviet visa. But "three third secretaries" had told her that they had heard nothing from Moscow. Said she despondently, "His letters have such an air of sadness-as though he is just doomed." At week's end, Barbara, through her lawyer, cabled a personal plea to Nikita Khrushchev...
...reporter. "When we instituted this program," explained a State spokesman, "we wanted objective reporting in depth, and now Cowles comes along with someone we feel cannot be objective." Nevertheless, Cowles persisted, and the State Department reluctantly validated the passport. Within three days the Chinese Foreign Ministry granted Snow his visa, though it has rejected countless applications from other newsmen over the past few years. "The speed," said the State Department, "speaks for itself." Lest anyone think that Snow's case might set a precedent, the Chinese explained that Snow was not in China as a newsman...