1987. március (14-32. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
mSí 24/D littl« Rut&ell Street, LÓN DÓM, WC.Í •Te/.CH-*ao n ze ■ G. Arassi 25/1987/e/ 15th Mareh, 1987 Travel permission of Sándor Rácz refused, then acceded Sándor Rácz, machine-tool maker, who was Chairman of the Great Budapest Central Worker Council during the 198*5 revolution has heen invited by the AFL-CIO American trade unión federation fór a visiting tour in the U.S.A. Rácz’s passport application was rejected at the end of January 1987 and then, after his appeal, he was called in to the passport department of the Ministry of Interior where he was told that he "did nőt behave well", i.e. he had given foreign Joumalists interviews and on the 25rd of October 1986 he had participated in the illegal commemoration of the revolution. Sándor Rácz’S appeal was finally rejected on the 5th of March, in writing. According to the official explanation he was barred from travel fór his police record of criminal pást. Hardly a week later, in the evening hours of March the 12th, two policemen knocked on the door of Rácz’s home and without any explanation handed him his passport permitting his travel to America.A jfew days earlier the US Embassy received Sándor Rácz as a guest. Sándor Rácz would like to begin his two month longround trip in America in April, 1987. The Ministry of Interior has refused László Rajk’s passport application recently. He wished to travel to Francé fór the opening of an exhibition.
