Seven Americans Lose Passports
(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. The State Department announced today it was withdrawing the passports of seven < American citizens who visited North Viet- a 1 nam during the last six months in violation i of United States travel regulations.
The department spokesman, Mr Robert McCloskey, told a press conference the seven included a Yale University professor, Staughton Lynd, a Communist party theoretician, Herbert Aptheke, and a Leftwing student, Thomas Hayden, who made a much-publicised trip to Hanoi four weeks ago. The other four, Michael Gene Myerson, Richard Ward, John Koch, and Harold Supri-
ano, went to North Vietnam last autumn. The spokesman also revealed that the Justice Department had been asked to investigate whether there was a case for criminal prosecution against the seven. He explained that criminal prosecution was only possible if it could be proved that they had intentionally violated travel restrictions. These put North Vietnam, China and several other countries off limits for American citizens unless their passports had been specially validated.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30978, 7 February 1966, Page 7
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