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...very difficult anymore to get a visa for travel in the Soviet Union. Ten years ago, no one went behind the Iron Curtain. And still last year the U.S. government was stamping all passports, "Not valid for travel to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...daughter Ana flew to Manhattan from Madrid. Eager but doubtful, they conferred with son Mariano, a Park Avenue lawyer. On advice from home, Ana went to Caracas and arrived unharmed. Carlos, a scholarly, nonpolitical lawyer, was picked to make the next test. The New York consul gave him a visa and General Pérez Jiménez' word on the honor of the army that he would not be mistreated...
...Baltimore Sun announced last week that the Russians had granted a permanent visa to Howard M. Norton, 44, veteran foreign and Washington correspondent, to open a Sun bureau in Moscow. Norton will enlarge the U.S. Moscow press corps to a dozen, including three for the A.P., two for U.P., and one each for I.N.S., New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, NBC and CBS. Also due in Moscow this week is Look's Edmund Stevens, 45, who will still appear occasionally in the Christian Science Monitor...
...Russia's journalistic gates are not open to all. Several visa applications from U.S. newsmen are still pending, and last week Moscow announced the first outright rejection of a U.S. correspondent's application since the Geneva summit meeting last July. The unwelcome one: the New York Times's Harrison Salisbury, 47, whom some in the U.S. found too uncritical during his 1949-54 sojourn in Russia, but whom the Russians found "slanderous" in the Pulitzer Prizewinning series he wrote after he left...
...last week applied for a visa to go to Mexico where, according to his Mexican friend Lawyer Hector Ponce Sanchez, he was considering investing "part of his savings" in a Chihuahua cattle ranch...