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...Congressman has a right to travel anywhere in the world in the name of legislative duty, Oregon's headline-hankering Democratic Representative Charles Orlando Porter last June sniffed the air, caught scents of legislative duty calling him to Red China. The State Department denied him a special visa, refusing to exempt him from its blanket ban on U.S. citizens' going behind the Bamboo Curtain. Porter promptly sued, claimed violation of his constitutional rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals last week upheld a lower court decision against Porter. The decision: Porter rates no better than any other citizen...
Last October, after Peking granted a temporary visa to Frederick C. Nossal of the Toronto Globe and Mail (circ. 226,000), Nossal joined a corps of foreign correspondents distinguished mainly for partisan reporting. Indeed, of Peking's 25-man complement of visiting newsmen, only two others-both wire-service men, one from Agence France-Presse and one from Reuters, Ltd.-are of the non-Communist press. After reading thousands of words of Nossal's copy, his hosts expressed themselves as more than satisfied with the new visitor. Conferring on him the distinction of being the Western Hemisphere...
Regler sweated out the rest of World War II in Mexico, to receive the usual reward of those who give their non serviam to Communism-ostracism by friends, charges that he was in the pay of Washington, or of the Gestapo. Ironically, he was denied a U.S. visa, while Eisler, the latrine lawgiver, spent years in the U.S. as an unwelcome visitor...
Authorities said that there was a possibility that Pahlavi had a "particular type of student's visa " which would provide diplomatic privilege...
Renewing the Visas. When President Magsaysay was killed in a plane crash, Carlos Garcia-an old friend of former Vice President Fernando Lopez-moved into Malacanan Palace, and things began going better for Lewin. On the ground that the Philippine government wanted him for $68,450 in back taxes, President Garcia allowed Lewin to get a temporary visa. Eagerly Lewin moved back into business, opened a fancy new Manila nightclub. Each time his temporary visa expired, Lewin managed to get it renewed-first by the President's Cabinet, then by the President's executive secretary, then...