Word: visas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LONDON--A newspaper reported yesterday that an undercover Syrian agent worked as a clerk for 20 years in the British Embassy in Damascus and tricked a diplomat there into signing a visa for Nezar Hindawi...
...Sunday Times said Syrian intelligence placed a Palestinian man in the British Embassy's visa section, and that he persuaded embassy second secretary Anthony Arnold to sign Hindawi's visa "as a matter of routine...
...Sunday Times did not identify the Palestinian clerk who allegedly worked for Syria, but said he was a senior assistant in the visa section. It said he was about 50 and had gone to Syria as a child...
Howe said Britain will "maintain and strengthen" visa restrictions on visiting Syrians...
...soon as it was widely known in the fall of 1981 that Andrei Sakharov and I were planning a hunger strike to get my daughter-in-law an exit visa, the car was stolen. When we were on the hunger strike and not leaving the house because we were afraid of being grabbed on the street and forcibly hospitalized, the car was suddenly found. The state traffic police kept calling us to come for it. We ignored them. But at last, unable to lure us out of the house with the prospect of getting our car back, they simply broke...