Word: visas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end South African authorities once more lashed out at the foreign press, this time calling for the expulsion of the outgoing New York Times Johannesburg bureau chief Alan Cowell, 39, a British citizen who has reported from South Africa since 1983. More troubling, Pretoria also rejected the visa application of Cowell's successor, Serge Schmemann. That left a major U.S. daily newspaper without the staff to report the news in South Africa, despite entreaties from Times editors in New York City and U.S. embassy officials. Cowell, whose work permit expired last June, had been allowed to remain...
...while living in Mexico and married to a Mexican national, Randall, now 50, relinquished her American citizenship. She says she believed at the time that she needed Mexican citizenship to find work. In January 1984 Randall, by then divorced, returned on a visa to the U.S. and married an American, from whom she is now separated. In October 1985 an INS official in El Paso rejected her application for permanent resident alien status. Ordinarily, Randall would be eligible to remain because her parents and two of her four children are U.S. citizens. But the immigration official decided that...
...allow his wife to seek medical treatment abroad, Bonner was permitted to go to the U.S. for a coronary-bypass operation. At the beginning of her six-month visit to the West, Bonner adhered to a pledge she had been obliged to sign in order to obtain her visa: she would hold no press conferences and give no interviews while abroad. Later, however, she was outraged at seeing secretly recorded videotapes of herself and her husband that portrayed them as living in comfort in Gorky. She was also upset when Gorbachev declared last February that Sakharov would never be allowed...
...potentially sour note for Harvard is the uncertainty surrounding former assistant Coach Zoran Tulum. The Yugoslav fencer worked with the Crimson as a volunteer a year ago, but has been unable to attain a visa to return to the United States this year...
Though he would like to return to South Africa,Waldorf says that he doubts the government willgive him a visa, both because he worked in thetownships and because he has written aboutapartheid...