111.   Russian officials and human rights activists have complained that the U.S. Embassy denies visas to businessmen, artists and writers.

112.   Prime Minister Thorbjoern Jagland on Tuesday complained to Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov that Norwegian members of the Bellona environmental group have been denied visas for Russia.

113.   Salah Hashem, an engineer and member of the Gamaa, said he was also denied a visa.

114.   Several top Mugabe aides have been denied visas and some of their children face cancelation of their study permits at U.S. schools and colleges.

115.   She also was denied a visa.

116.   Still, they have denied return visas to missionaries and pastors under the law.

117.   Thai newspapers reported last year that about a dozen Thai politicians are on a U.S. blacklist denying them visas because of suspected involvement with narcotics trafficking.

118.   Some foreign aid projects have been frozen because their staff have been denied visas or refused permission to live in villages.

119.   Tarletsky said activists from other European countries whom the group had invited to lead seminars during a weeklong festival that began Sunday were denied visas.

120.   The act also allows the United States to deny visas to executives of such companies.