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Waiting in Hong Kong for the visa that would permit him to enter Red China, Correspondent Frederick C. Nossal of the Toronto Globe and Mail was upset by a series of frustrating delays. Why were Peking's masters keeping him out? "I can't understand it," complained Nossal, "when I can do them so much good."

Peking finally got Nossal's point, granted him a temporary visa last October, later extended it for six months and thereby made him the Western Hemisphere's only Red China-based newspaperman. In his eight months on the job. Nossal gave his hosts scant cause for offense, generally depicted Red Chinese life in the most glowing terms (TIME, April 18). But even that was not enough: last week the Globe and Mail announced that the Chinese Communists, accusing Nossal of inaccuracy, had ordered him to leave. Correspondent Nossal could not understand why--and neither could anyone else who had read his effulgent dispatches.

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