State Dept. Denies Visa to Soviet Labor Group
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
The Reagan Administration has denied applications for U.S. visas from a delegation of Soviet trade unionists, the State Department announced Tuesday.
Department spokesman Charles Redman said the refusal was based on an amendment to U.S. immigration law designed to exclude “representatives of purported labor organizations” that are instruments of a totalitarian state.
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