Archive Report
Archive Report
Challenging of U.S. Travel Restrictions
Recent Journey of Three Americans to Hanoi
A journey to hanoi, late in December, by three Americans who oppose this country's policies in South-east Asia intensified a long-standing debate over restrictions imposed by the United States on foreign travel by its citizens. Alone among leading Western nations, the United States forbids its nationals, for political reasons, to visit certain countries. Off limits to most American citizens are five Communist countries: Albania, Red China, Cuba, North Korea and North Viet Nam.
The trio of Americans who visited the capital of North Viet Nam1 consisted of Herbert Aptheker, an avowed Communist, and two leaders of the so-called New Left—Staughton Lynd, an assistant professor at Yale who served as spokesman for the group, and Thomas ...