Word: visas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of a generation [of Latin American intellectuals] that came to literary and political maturity in the context of the Cuban Revolution and U.S. hostility to it." Womack also noted that the American Central Intelligence Agency once suspected Fuentes of being a Soviet agent and denied him a visa to enter the U.S. during the 1960s...
...case of Polish poet Stanislaw Baranczak--now an associate professor of Slavic Languages--Professor Donald Fanger, then chairman of the Slavic department, contacted Baranczak directly in Poland in 1978 to recruit him as a replacement for a retiring professor. Baranczak immediately encountered difficulty in obtaining his exit visa, but he kept in contact with the department for three years and through six unsuccessful visa applications...
...pretending to be drunk," who shouted "Lousy Kike" and "Damned anti-Soviet"--an attack he believes was instigated by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, who had harassed him since his release from prison. Although not Jewish, he pretended to be a Jew in order to obtain his exit visa more easily...
...Many Poland specialists agreed that Walesa's own words in the UPI interview held the key to his reluctance to travel: "I cannot go without being sure whether I can come back or not." The real obstacle to Walesa's visit, experts said, did not center on obtaining a visa to the United States, however much the Polish authorities may have disliked the prospect of the labor leader decrying the Communist regime in a well-publicized Western speech...
...alleged squabble over the visa may stem from the Reagan Administration's recent attempts to curb what it has called increasing Communist infiltration in Latin America. In a speech before Congress on Wednesday. Reagan termed the Sandinist government a "new dictatorship...