71.   Pickering said Secretary of State Warren Christopher personally ordered the visa be issued to Zhirinovsky.

72.   A conference on media freedom was canceled Wednesday after Serbian authorities refused to issue visas to several Council of Europe officials due to attend the conference, organizers said.

73.   A Japanese diplomat who issued visas to save thousands of Jews in Lithuania during World War II was honored Monday for the centennial of his birth.

74.   A Saudi citizen has been arrested in an FBI sting operation for allegedly accepting bribes to issue American visas to Saudi nationals, authorities said.

75.   A U.S. official, asking not to be identified, confirmed that Garcia has been approved for the assignment but added that no visa has been issued.

76.   According to investigators, Salim had a visa issued by a German embassy and the required invitation from a resident.

77.   After they issued visas to terrorists, they came in for a lot of criticism.

78.   Algerian authorities only rarely issue visas to foreign journalists.

79.   Among those saved by Chuine Sugihara, who issued visas to thousands of Jews, was Dr. Sylvia Smoller.

80.   Another professor, who did not wish to be named, said he was also told that the office could not issue a visa for a Sri Lankan passport.