Word: passports
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...opened. Nonetheless, the law stoutly declares that "each citizen of the U.S.S.R. has the right to exit and enter the Soviet Union" and that this right "cannot be arbitrarily denied." Full implementation was put off supposedly to give the government time to set up the customs, transportation and passport-issuing machinery necessary to deal with the many more people leaving. But Soviet citizens joining relatives abroad or accepting job offers from foreign employers are allowed to leave at once...
Company president Hiroshi Majima says he hatched the idea when a fellow traveler in China lost his passport, causing the tour group annoying delays. His invention, sold in four-packs for about $72, is meant to be attached to a wallet or passport, where it will noisily remind people not to leave such valuables behind. Most fabrics -- with the exception of sheer swimsuit materials -- should block enough light to stop the music...
...hope for which she gives up everything is deliberately left hanging. As she dies, the person holding and comforting the child is not the father nor his new wife nor an American friend on the scene but the Engineer, who has viewed the boy chiefly as a human passport to the paradise of American prosperity. Says Mackintosh: "The audience has to leave not knowing what will happen to the child. That is the truth of the world we live...
...planning to go to Greece. Not the perfect spot, given the Papandreou government's sympathy for the P.L.O., but it would do. Fearing that the Greeks would be reluctant to take legal action against Rashid, the American embassy told them only that a man carrying a fake Syrian passport would be landing at Athens airport on May 30. "The Greeks were happy to arrest him," says a former official directly involved in the case. "Once he was in custody, we told them it was Rashid. They said, 'Oh, shit...
...years the Greeks resisted American efforts to extradite the accused bomber. Rashid's wife, still living in Khartoum, was even permitted to visit him in jail at least twice using a Greek passport and a fake name, although she too was under U.S. indictment. Nor does the story end with the decision last September by Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis to prosecute Rashid as part of his tougher line on terrorism. Two months ago, Rashid discovered the identity of the key witness against him. Since then, U.S. officials have learned, the supposedly retired Abu Ibrahim has dropped in on Awad...