Word: visas
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...film, won the right to operate the center that is processing the millions of rolls professional and amateur photographers shoot at the Games. IBM got to provide the computers that officials and athletes are using to check the schedule of events as well as the times and scores recorded. Visa is the Games' official credit card; ^ American Express, MasterCard and Diners Club cards are thus not being accepted at any Olympic ticket office or venue (though they find ready acceptance at Calgary hotels and restaurants). General Motors has the right to supply all the vehicles used by Olympic officials...
...worst part of being an African at Harvard, students say, is the University's failure to provide adequate guidance and support. The Harvard International Office assists students with technical problems like visa applications, but several African students say they wish it did more. "The Harvard International Office tries to provide support for the foreign students here, but it's kind of limited," says Patrice R. Backer, who came here via Haiti from Congo. "There is a lack of a network," he says...
...those who are not discouraged by all this, there are other caveats. The wait for a visa to visit Viet Nam can be exasperatingly long, and doctors recommend an arm-numbing array of shots against typhoid, cholera, tetanus and diphtheria, as well as the weekly malaria pill while in-country. A few other words of advice are in order. Leave your preconceptions at home; pack instead medical supplies for most intestinal contingencies (don't drink the water, peel all the fruit) and a healthy tolerance for inconvenience (no toilet paper or light bulbs). Credit cards and traveler's checks...
...firsthand look at how far the Soviet economy had fallen behind the West's. When Gorbachev joined the national hierarchy, he was already well traveled by comparison with such other Soviet leaders as Andropov, who never set foot outside the Communist world, and Suslov, who reportedly once told a visa applicant that he saw no reason why anyone would want to journey beyond the U.S.S.R...
...main point the Cubans won was a pledge that they will not be returned to Cuba before their cases are speedily and fairly reviewed, but there was no guarantee that many will not be deported after that. Any detainee may apply for a visa to a country other than Cuba or the U.S. All were granted amnesty for damaging property during the rioting, which virtually gutted both institutions. Those detainees who had finished sentences for various offenses, some as minor as possessing marijuana, were promised their release by next June 30 at the latest. Any such deadline was a vast...