They debated Harrison Salisbury of the Times and Pierre Salinger. then President Kennedys press secretary. on NBCTVs "Face the Nation" on the subject. "Free Press in an Open Society." During the next year. in April 1962. Mr. Fuentes applied for a temporary visa in order to participate in an NBCTV debate on "How Progress Can Best Be Achieved in Latin America." with Richard Goodwin. then Deputy Assistant Secretary for InterAmerican Affairs. The State Department refused to grant Mr. Fuentes a visa on the grounds that he might be a Communist. Mr. Fuentes visit certainly posed no more of a threat to this country than did that of the two wellknown Communists the preceding year. Further.- Mr. Fuentes himself posed no more of a threat to the security of this country in 1962 or 1969 than he did in 1961. 1964. and 1966. years when the State Department saw fit to issue him a visa. This irrationality in the State Departments treatment of Mr. Fuentes underlines the arbitrariness with which this provision is enforced I urge that we pass legislation as soon as possible to repeal it and save the country from future embarrassing inci-