71.   While lacking precise figures, Cuban officials say the Clinton administration exaggerates when it claims that hundreds are awaiting exit visas.

72.   For the first time, Palestinians who want to travel abroad must first secure an exit visa and a re-entry permit.

73.   He holds a US refugee document which requires him to get an exit visa from US immigration when he wants to leave, the report said.

74.   But Yu Haocheng left Beijing on Saturday more than three years after he first applied to the Chinese authorities for an exit visa, his wife said.

75.   The official Cuban position is that the asylum-seekers will not be granted exit visas under any condition.

76.   Until then they can benefit from cheap air tickets, exemption from fines and exit visas.

77.   Organisers regretted that the Turkish writer from Kurdistan, Ismail Besikci, would not be coming since the Turkish authorities have refused him an exit visa.

78.   South Korea eased Thursday restrictions on businessmen travelling to North Korea, introducing a multiple exit visa as part of a package of procedural details unveiled for resuming trade.