The World - News from June 1, 1989

The United States is extending a program allowing certain foreign visitors into the country without a visa to include four more nations, the State Department announced. The entry privileges, granted under a test program running through 1990, will now be given to citizens of France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. Earlier this month, President Bush announced that Italians and West Germans would be able to enter the United States without visas under a pilot program. First authorized in 1988 for citizens of Britain and Japan, the program permits a visa-free stay of up to 90 days in the United States.