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Mandel applied for a non-immigrant visa in Brussels on Sept, 8, 1969, seeking permission to enter the U.S. for six days to attend a conference on economics at Stanford University. Mandel was supposed to debate John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics, on the topic "Technology and the Third World...
...Mandel applied again for a non-immigrant visa in order to speak at a series of conventions and seminars-sponsored mainly by universities and academic groups-scheduled for late November and early December...
Prior to the agreement, applications for an exit visa were usually refused or simply ignored. Konrad K., 41, a worker in a Silesian concrete factory, applied twelve times in seven years. Three weeks ago, a plainclothesman knocked on his door and informed him that he must leave Poland by the end of the month. To help pay for his Polish exit visa (about $200 for persons over 16), he sold his antique Polish car for $100. "Some Poles were angry with us and shouted that we should have gotten out earlier," said Heinz H., 60, a telegraph operator...
...hearty breakfast, and over the next four days they are given medical checkups, new papers, job counseling and briefings. When the refugees are ready to leave the camp, the Bonn government provides each family of four with the equivalent of $200; the newcomers are also entitled to reimbursement for visa and travel expenses. In labor-short West Germany, where 900,000 jobs are open, the refugees should have no trouble finding work...
...Esther Aisenstadt, who had taught English for 23 years at an advanced institute in Moscow, was discharged shortly after she applied for a visa. Alek Volkov, 33, a professor of piano at the Kharkov conservatory, was demoted to page turner for other professors. The KGB also regularly searches the homes of visa applicants and sometimes carts them off to jail on trumped-up charges...