Iraq was reported here today to have instructed all of its embassies and consulates to bar visas to more than 100 well-known personalities because they had attended international conferences in Israel.
The Baghdad Radio announced a partial list of the persons to whom visas will be refused. They included a former Nepal Premier, a Singapore education official, Philippines trade minister, the presidents of Teheran and Copenhagen universities, Nobel prize-winning British atomic physicist Sir John Cockroft and others.
Most of those named took part in the Rehovot conference on the role of science in assisting underdeveloped countries.
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