Word: waivers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest in the stuffy, money-losing Washington Star (circ. 370,000) last fall, can also acquire the parent company's six moneymaking radio and television stations as well. The FCC has a rule against perpetuating such local monopolies when ownership changes hands, but Allbritton has pleaded for a waiver, saying that he needs profits from the stations to keep the paper alive...
That declaration forced the group to apply for a special waiver from the U.S. government before being allowed to enter the country...
...Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday went by the only word out of the State Department, the bureau that would have to clear the group, was that the waiver is under review and that it takes the bureaucracy a long time to act on visa matters...
Quilapayun was originally scheduled to perform here Wednesday night. The waiver delay forced the group to reschedule its entire 12 city U.S. tour...
Officials in the State Department's Public Affairs Bureau and in the Justice Department's Immigration and Naturalization Bureau have hrid the waiver under review since last Friday...