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From: srg@quick.COM (Spencer Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: UUCP to USSR
Message-ID: <161@quick.COM>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 02:59:39 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 25 02:59:39 1987
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In article <8710220055.AA08950@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, tanner@ki4pv.UUCP writes:
> Naturally it would be rude to mention that we aren't  allowed  to
> travel  to  Cuba.   That's OK, Cubans aren't allowed to travel to
> this country, either.

False and true, respectively.  U.S. citizens are permitted to go
ANYWHERE, it's just that your U.S. passport isn't valid in countries
with which we don't have diplomatic relations (like Cuba).  With
certain exceptions like military personnel and people with security
clearances we're not even required to notify our government that
we're leaving, much less where we went.  Most countries outside
North America won't let you IN without a passport, but that's their
law, not ours.  Citizens of communist states, however, are routinely
harassed just for asking to leave, and need official permission just
to move around within their own countries.