Word: visas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to take Master Card and Visa mail charges for our software catalog items." Grossman explains. "The Master Card man was kind of surprised when he came to a house and was asked into the living room by a 14-year-old," he recalls...
...further signal of the Administration's determination to maintain a hard line against Central American leftists, the State Department last week denied a visa to Ruben Zamora, a relatively moderate member of the F.D.R.-F.M.L.N. coalition that is fighting the Salvadoran government. Zamora, who has made frequent visits to Washington to woo members of Congress and has met in the past months with U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone, had been invited to speak in the U.S. The Administration's excuse was that Zamora had publicly welcomed the killing of a U.S. military adviser in El Salvador last...
Last week, the Administration attempted to carry its sorry policy one step further by delaying the issuance of visas to a group of Nicaraguan officials who were there to visit the Law School. The purpose of the delegation's trip--postponed indefinitely because of the State Department's bureaucratic harassment--was to study the American electoral system in preparation for Nicaragua's 1985 elections. Besides visiting the Law School the Nicaraguans were scheduled to meet with Congressmen in Washington and attend a United Nations conference, all of this part of a 17-nation tour. In an attempt to explain...
Washington's game plan is simple: keep tensions with the Sandinistas high to increase their paranoia and hence their authoritarian impulses, and do nothing to help them develop more democratic institutions. The visa delays fits neatly into the latter half of the Administration's strategy...
...were not averse to letting the Soviets suffer a bit of embarrassment over the incident. They also admit that any attempt to prevent Andrei's departure would have been legally dubious, since he was both a minor in the custody of his parents and held a diplomatic-status visa, which prohibits "any form" of detention. Nevertheless, they felt morally obliged, as one put it, to find out "what was really in his mind." One reason: according to a senior presidential adviser, the FBI told the White House that there was a 95% probability that the letters were genuine...