Word: visas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sept. 27, Oswald went to Mexico City himself, headed straight for the Cuban embassy. He tried to get a visa to Cuba but flopped miserably. He was in Mexico seven days, and Commission investigators have traced enough of his activities there to be persuaded that he made no conspiratorial contacts about killing Kennedy at the time...
...Speculation?It is probable that Oswald had prior contacts with Soviet agents before he entered Russia in 1959 because his application for a visa was processed and approved immediately on receipt...
...same way when he is merely an employee. In Hold Back the Dawn, he played a European refugee trying to get into the U.S. from Mexico. The script called for him to address a passing cockroach bitterly, saying: "Where do you think you're going? Have you a visa...
...last week, unable to pay fines of $31,000 each, sat two Viennese truck drivers. Their crime: trying to take coffee labeled as fertilizer into Communist Yugoslavia. The two had been engaged in what has become one of the Continent's most lucrative enterprises. The gradual easing of visa restrictions in Eastern Europe, coupled with continuing, bleak shortages under Communism, has set off an unprecedented boom in West-to-East smuggling...
...LEPER LAW" BANS OUR GIRLS, headlined London's Daily Mirror, in wry reference to the fact that the restriction on visas was ordered under a section of the U.S. immigration law that prohibits entry of aliens who are "afflicted with leprosy, who advocate polygamy, and whose employment will adversely affect wages and working conditions" of Americans. Despite the presence of an estimated 3,500 English secretaries in New York, the city actually has a shortage of typists and stenographers. But the U.S. Government, suspecting sharp practices by some employment agencies, grew worried as visa applications began piling...