Word: visas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...