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...trouble started on Aug. 4 when Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson's luggage inadvertently went through standard scanning procedures, instead of being exempt from such an examination because he was a VIP returning from Caracas on a flight chartered by Argentina's state oil company. As a result of the scan, customs officials at Buenos Aires' Newberry airport found a bag stuffed with $790,550 in unmarked $50 bills. The other passengers on the plane were seven Argentine and Venezuelan oil officials who had been in Caracas negotiating the bond and gas plant deals...
...couple immediately pounced on the incident as proof that Chavez was buying the support of the Kirchner government. "This is the proof of the corruption of this government," said Elisa Carrio, the main opposition candidate in the presidential campaign. The unseemliness of the airport discovery was not mitigated by Antonini Wilson's immediate flight from Argentina, apparently for Key Biscayne, Florida, where he maintains an apartment. A warrant has now been issued for his arrest by an Argentine court...
...anything to do with functionaries of our government," Chavez told reporters in Buenos Aires when he visited two weeks ago, just after the affair came to light. For its part the Venezuelan state oil company - which has a branch in Argentina - denied any connection between itself and Antonini Wilson. However, news reports in Argentina and neighboring Uruguay claimed that Antonini Wilson's hotel bills and other expenses in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo - just across the river from Buenos Aires - had been paid for by the Venezuelan company...
Some experts are skeptical about would-be college students surfing through the application process. Michael Truschke, Pepperdine University's admissions director, says that although the service may be somewhat useful, it should not be a substitute for firsthand research--visiting campuses and meeting students and faculty. But Gina Antonini, a high school senior from Arlington, Va., liked the recommendations of Destination-U.com so much that she ditched her guidebooks and applied to the six schools the website suggested. "None of the other sources helped me figure out what kind of schools would fit me as a person," she says. "I found...
...JOSEPH ANTONINI Ousted as chairman two months ago, now he quits as K Mart...