Word: visas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with names like Shearson/American Express and Prudential-Bache. By offering a "supermarket" of financial services, these firms permit an investor to pick up stocks along with auto shocks at his local Sears, to write checks and sell shares through a Merrill Lynch Cash Management Account and to have his Visa transactions recorded along with his stock trading...
...Defense of the Revolution (neighborhood block committees) and the police. In May 1979, because I had refused to write a letter disavowing the contents of my books and denouncing those who had published my poetry or who had talked of my situation abroad, my family was refused an exit visa to leave the country and my brother-in-law lost his job. My friends and relatives were forbidden to visit my house...
...recalls, and Britain told him he would have to wait a year. He wrote to U.S. immigration officials about citizenship, but was again rebuffed. After he presented himself to the Los Angeles Immigration and Naturalization Service office, agents there began deportation proceedings on the grounds that his student visa had expired...
...officials is limited, contacts with citizens are often monitored, and authorities sometimes react strongly to reporters who displease them. Last year officials temporarily lifted the credentials of a New York Times correspondent; in January the government expelled a U.P.I. reporter on charges of obtaining military intelligence and denied a visa to a BBC correspondent to protest statements made in a documentary...
...lost control of our borders." Along the 2,000-mile southern frontier, seizures are 30% to 50% higher than last spring. The northern border is emerging as a convenient back door for refugees from the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East, most of whom can enter Canada without a visa; the flow there is up by 30% to 40%. INS Border Patrols are swamped. Says veteran Texas Officer Jack Richardson: "It's like sword fighting with Zorro with a short knife...