Speaker. under unanimous consent. I include the following: [From the Observer. Aug. 16. 19701 ANTISMrrH ExILEs RUN INTO PERMIT TROUBLE (By Colin Legum) Several hundred Rhodesian opponents of the rebel regime. living in insecurity and many of them in penury in Britain because the Home Office refuses to grant them work permits. are angered by the decision of the Home Secretary. Mr. Mauding. to give a work permit to the 23yearold stepson of Mr. Ian Emith. Mrs. Sarah Francesca Mugabe. 38yearold wife of a leading political opponent of the Smith regime now approaching his ninth year in a Salisbury prison. is one of those who faces the threat of deportation as well as being refused the right to work. A Ghanaian before she married Robert Mugabe in Salisbury In 1961. she was herself imprisoned for socalled trespass. For most of her married life. her husband has been in Rhodesian prisons. After losing their only child. she came to England in 1967 to take a teachers training course at Queen Elizabeth College. London University. hoping to earn a living and to help her husband. Having obtained her diploma she was refused a work permit and had to resign her temporary job almost a year ago. since then she has had to depend on charity. She is also threatened with deportation. The Home Office insists that. since she entered Britain for purposes of study. she cannot apply for a work permit while remaining here. But they will not promise that she will get a permit even if she should find the money to leave the country and to return. Where is she expected to go?
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