Word: visas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zone; the carrier Wasp, its jet fighters just three minutes away, cruised offshore. Some of the food for Kennedy's private meals was flown into San Jose from the Wasp. Preparatory to it all, the U.S. had requested and received from Costa Rica the right to screen all visa requests for entry into the little country. Among those who applied and were refused: Cuban Exile Leader Jose Miro Cardona (TIME cover, April 28, 1961), on the ground that the U.S. did not care to turn the occasion into a propaganda festival for anti-Castro Cubans...
...still there. Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico will not talk about their nationals in Cuba, but the figure runs into the thousands. Other nations frown upon travel to Castroland, but until last Feb. 15 it was no trick to fly to Mexico, where the Cuban embassy issued a visa on a slip of paper. No telltale stamp marred the passports. Now the Mexicans stamp passports "Salio a Cuba" in bold letters. But, of course, passports can be conveniently "lost." destroying the evidence...
Surprisingly enough, beneath all the sukiyaki, Producer Hal Wallis has put together an entertaining little picture; the neon wetness of Tokyo streets and the misty watercolors of the countryside in the exterior shots lend a much needed credibility to the convolutions of the plot. Harvey wants a visa to the U.S. Hyer, as a receptionist at the U.S. embassy, is willing to expedite it, provided he comes to terms, her terms. Nuyen counters by finding work for him in Japan to prove that despite his Sino-Russian origins and his British accent, he has a future there. Hyer ripostes with...
...problem here is Castro, not Kennedy. With extremely few exceptions (I think three since last October), the Cuban government has consistently, refused to grant visas to American newsmen. Personally, I am among a large number of U.S. reporters--most of whom had attempted to report Cuba objectively in the past--who have seen their visa applications repeatedly turned down. It is my understanding that the State Department does not refuse a passport clearance to any newsman who has a Cuban visa...
...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