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...firsthand look at how far the Soviet economy had fallen behind the West's. When Gorbachev joined the national hierarchy, he was already well traveled by comparison with such other Soviet leaders as Andropov, who never set foot outside the Communist world, and Suslov, who reportedly once told a visa applicant that he saw no reason why anyone would want to journey beyond the U.S.S.R...
...main point the Cubans won was a pledge that they will not be returned to Cuba before their cases are speedily and fairly reviewed, but there was no guarantee that many will not be deported after that. Any detainee may apply for a visa to a country other than Cuba or the U.S. All were granted amnesty for damaging property during the rioting, which virtually gutted both institutions. Those detainees who had finished sentences for various offenses, some as minor as possessing marijuana, were promised their release by next June 30 at the latest. Any such deadline was a vast...
...police knocked on the door of his rented Kendall town house and lured him outside by claiming that his van had been involved in a hit-and-run accident. They were suddenly joined by U.S. marshals and immigration agents, who arrested him on a charge of overstaying his tourist visa. Since Garay had implicated him just hours before, the marshals felt they had to act before the suspect caught wind of the news and fled. "It was a scam, but it worked," said Mell Hess of the U.S. Marshals Service...
Vladimir Feltsman finally got to Carnegie Hall last week. Eight years ago, Feltsman, the Moscow-born son of a prominent Jewish pop composer, was considered one of the Soviet Union's most promising young pianists. Then he applied to the authorities for an emigration visa. Suddenly his engagements were canceled, his recordings yanked off the radio. Even a private performance at Spaso House, the U.S. Ambassador's official residence in Moscow, was marred when the piano was mysteriously vandalized before the concert. Apart from a few performances, mostly on battered uprights in remote villages, Feltsman was a musical nonperson...
Meanwhile, the bureaucracy grows only more cumbersome. Nicaraguans complain about having to be screened by their local Sandinista defense committee before they can even apply for a driver's license or passport. "We need a visa to leave the country," says Maria Fernandez Bermudez, on the way to visit relatives in Costa Rica. "And then we need permission to return again. Imagine having to get a visa to return to your own country...