Influential Members of both the House and the Senate gave their support to this process and many traveled to Havana as symbolic gestures of renewed relations. Recent actions by the State Department. however. indicate that the Reagan administration does not intend to proceed in the same direction. On September 16. the State Department announced that visa applications by four members of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs. including Ricardo Alarcon. Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. were denied. The four were to participate in the Center for Cuban Studies symposium. "The U.S. and Cuba: Prospects for Dialogue." to be held this week in House and Senate Office Buildings. The purpose of the symposium was to promote the normalization of relations with Cuba. The visas were denied under section 212827 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act. which authorizes such action on foreign policy grounds. A spokesman for the State Department said that the visas were rejected "to reflect opposition to Cuban intervention and promotion of armed violence in Central America. Africa. and elsewhere." Mr. Speaker.
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