Word: visas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young Americans for Freedom have asked the Washington District Court to issue a write of mandamus forcing the State Department to rule on an application for a visa made by Moise Tshombe, head of secessionist Katanga Province...
Tshombe applied to the State Department for a visa under a Belgian passport on Jan. 19, and again on Feb. 3, according to Donald B. Shafto, chairman of the rally. His application has not yet been considered, Shafto said...
...result, his blue-penciled stories in those days sometimes read more like items from Pravda than straight news. Not until Salisbury returned to New York in 1954 could he write the facts; Moscow promptly blasted him as ''ignorant" and a "liar," and refused him another visa for several years. Salisbury's latest product doubtless would win him some plaudits in the Kremlin-and some angry snarls as well...
...Chief Stan Karnow presides over a tedious and essential operation akin to wartime intelligence gathering. He and Correspondents Jerry Schecter and Loren Fessler interview European and Asian businessmen who travel in and out of China, see diplomats down from Peking, pump the occasional Swiss journalist who gets a mainland visa. They keep a man posted at Kowloon railroad station to watch for arrivals from Canton; they get word of refugees arriving at Macao, and interview them-poor, haggard and inarticulate people who can tell of the rice ration in their own village but are ignorant of conditions five miles away...
This border contrasts far more radically with those of Czechoslovakia and Hungary and in matters far more significant than the time it takes to get a visa. Here, the only peculiarity in the alpine scenery is a sort of stone-henge monument celebrating the liberation from the Nazis in 1945. A road to Czechoslovakia or Hungary, on the other hand, will be heavily guarded by soldiers with dogs and by high sentry towers on the other side of the line...