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Corridors of Power: Visa Waivers, Afghanistan and Bulgarian Nurses

Corridors of Power: Visa Waivers, Afghanistan and Bulgarian Nurses

Editor's Note: Corridors of Power appears this week on Wednesday, but will return to its normal Monday slot next week.

SOME EUROPEANS MORE WELCOME THAN OTHERS -- High on the talks agenda of George Bush's hosts everywhere he went in the New Europe was the visa waiver issue. Visitors to the United States from 15 European Union countries haven't needed entry visas for years, but nationals of the 12 recently admitted members do, and the latter want equal treatment.

Among them are the Eastern European countries on Bush's recent travel itinerary. They complain that they supported Bush on Iraq, and now on the new planned U.S. missile shield, and what are they getting in return? It's the citizens of Old Europe, not their own, who can sail into the United States without having first to stand in line at a U.S. consulate.

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