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...economist, Ernest R. Mandel, was refused a visa for a speaking tour of American colleges and universities...
...Mandel is the editor of the weekly journal La Gaucho and the author of Marxist Economic Theory, published last year...
Despite a letter from Secretary of State William Rogers saying that granting Mandel a visa was "in the national interest," Mitchell last week refused to allow the 46-year-old economist to make another visit. He had been invited to lecture at several U.S. universities, including Princeton, M.I.T. and Vassar. The reason: in 1968, Mandel deviated from his itinerary, which under the provisions of the act is forbidden. Mandel claims -and the State Department apparently agrees-that he was never fully briefed on the act's provisions. Recently, Mandel has made a careful study of the McCarran...
...Mandel, who lives in Brussels and edits the militantly leftist weekly La Gauche (circ. 5,000), has written a number of books. His most recent is a two-volume work titled Marxist Economic Theory. Critics both in the U.S. and abroad have praised the book's fresh, undoctrinaire approach to Marxism, and the Economist felt that "no student can afford to ignore this very important work." Mandel's ideas may clash with American beliefs, but there is something absurd in the whole Mc-Carran Act notion that the U.S. must be protected from dangerous alien contamination by keeping...
...Mandel was surprised that the Justice Department opposed his entry into the U.S., "surprised that the American government is afraid of people who defend Marxist doctrine when many Marxist books are freely sold in the U.S." But he feels he has made some capital out of his rejection. "If I had gone to the U.S.," he says, "I would have addressed audiences of about 100 people." As a result of his rejection, adds Mandel, "I have been interviewed by television, and 40 million Americans will listen to my views...