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95.0. "Foreign musicians to be banned from US?" by ESPN::HENDRICKS (Holly Hendricks) Tue Oct 28 1986 10:43

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Subject: Ban on foreign musicians!?
Posted: 25 Oct 86 21:49:40 GMT
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Posted: Sat Oct 25 16:49:40 1986
 
 
The following message is being forwarded for a friend.  Please
direct all responses, correspondence, etc. to David Drexler, who
can be reached at the addresses given at the end of this posting.
 
--Bob Tracy
occrsh!rct
 
(Begin forwarded message...)
I don't have access to this newsgroup, so I don't know if this subject is
already under discussion. I just found out about it today from a folk band
(Woods Tea Company - good stuff!) and asked a friend with access to post this
message for me.
 
Some bean counter in Dept of Justice, with some prodding (pay-off?) from the
musicians' union just put a regulation in place that prohibits most foreign
musicians from playing in the USA!  It's in the Federal Register, Vol 51,
#153, Aug 8 1986, page 28576 (if you want to look it up in your local
library). It says basically that only pre-eminent foreign musicians will be
allowed to play here, and then only once a year. "Pre-eminent" is not defined
in the document, but the implication is that only big-name bands will be
permitted here. This isn't even something that was legislated, and nobody but
the musicians union had any say in the matter. The regulation goes into
effect in about 60 days. After that, any foreign musicians who aren't in a
big-name band will be deported! Cananda and many other countries have already
closed their borders to our musicians, in retaliation.
 
This regulation will keep ALL relatively unknown acoustic bands out of the
United States. Listening to Tommy Sands sing "There Were Roses" was a moving
experience for me, and one that our Dept of Justice intends that no Americans
get another chance at without doing a good bit of travel.
 
If you want to try to help us get this bullsh*t repealed, call Loretta
Shogren, Director of Policy Directives at the US Dept of Justice, at [202]-
633-3048, and give her a piece of your mind. Please call! They'll be banning
foreign-made albums next, all in the name of "save our economy from the
foreigners".
 
David Drexler
UUCP:    {ihnp4,cbosgd,okstate,uokmax}!occrsh!gorgo!ddrex , or
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FidoNet: sysop, 19/1 or 147/1
USnail:  POB 1214 \ Bethany OK \ 73008
 
If there are any fretted dulcimer players out there, I'd like to hear from
you. . . .
(End forwarded message...)

    
    
    These are the same nincompoops that stopped Farley Mowat at the
    Canadian border when he was on his way to a promotional tour for
    his new book in California.  That was a year ago last May and they
    never did get it straightened out.