Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet the legendary sheik Kambir Abdul Rahman face to face. This time he had with him New Jersey's four-term Democratic Senator, Harrison ("Pete") Williams, 60. Meeting in the yacht's salon, the visitors spoke to the sheik through an interpreter, a dark-complexioned agent who conveyed their words to the sheik in something approximating Arabic. Nodding and smiling under his burnoose, the sheik, who claimed to speak little English, managed to express his uncomplicated desires: he wanted to invest in land and casinos in Atlantic City, as well as in a U.S. titanium* mine in Virginia...
...first tapes were quickly reviewed by officials at the department's highest levels to see if the tactics used by the actor-agents in the field were proper. Moreover, each actual cash payoff was witnessed by a Justice Department attorney, who sat in an adjoining room and watched a closed-circuit TV monitor. In some instances, the attorney would telephone one of the agents serving the sheik, if the bribe suggestions were getting too bold. The agent picking up the telephone would be advised to ease the pitch...
...Pretoria government has said it will buy oil however and wherever it is available. Aware of South Africa's needs, a group of high-seas swindlers allegedly went to work. The prime suspect is Soudan. A resident of Houston, the 36-year-old Lebanese expatriate was an insurance agent and would-be oil broker who last October set up a one-man business called the Oxford Shipping Co. In November, using $11.5 million that he reportedly claimed later was a legacy from his deceased father, Soudan bought a ten-year-old Swedish VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) that...
EXPECTING. Susan Ford Vance, 22, only daughter of former President Gerald Ford and Wife Betty; and Charles Vance, 38, formerly a Secret Service agent assigned to the Fords, now a partner in an Anaheim, Calif., bodyguard/protection firm; their first child, the Fords' second grandchild...
...going there, buddy." The couple finally pulled up in front of a building that had rats scurrying up the narrow stairs, cockroaches dancing in the fetid rooms and bars on the narrow windows. The "fireplace" was a drawing with colored flames. Rent? "Well," rasped the agent, "they're asking a thousand, but seeing as how you and the missus could make this a lovely home, you can have it for $950." The couple fled...