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...Peru the Senate began looking into charges that former President Alan Garcia Perez looted government funds by siphoning them through B.C.C.I. accounts in Panama. Returning from a month-long vacation in Europe, Garcia hotly denied the accusations. At the same time, officials in Chile and Argentina scrutinized the financial affairs of Ghaith Pharaon, a Saudi tycoon and B.C.C.I. front man who is building Hyatt hotels in both countries...
...project a logical and necessary catastrophe." Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute in Indianapolis goes further in his new study Global Food Progress 1991. He argues that financial investment, not fertile soil, is now the limiting factor in food production. Idle and underutilized cropland in the U.S. and Argentina alone, he says, could feed an extra 1.4 billion people...
...also soon aid scientists in solving a number of historical mysteries. Among them: whether the man who drowned in Argentina in 1979 really was Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, and whether Abraham Lincoln suffered from Marfan's syndrome, an inherited disease characterized by gangly limbs, poor eyesight and a weak heart. "The applications of this technology are literally as wide as your imagination!" exclaims University of Virginia geneticist Dr. Thaddeus Kelly...
...newspapers and television stations competed fiercely for scoops. According to one such report in the London Guardian, the CIA used B.C.C.I. accounts to pay nearly 500 prominent Britons, apparently for information about British arms sales and overseas contracts. The Guardian also said B.C.C.I. funded a clandestine joint effort by Argentina, Libya and Pakistan to acquire nuclear arms...
Farther south, the government of Argentina last week gave B.C.C.I. 48 hours / to pack up and leave the country. Authorities were particularly worried by the appearance of links between President Carlos Saul Menem and Saudi billionaire Ghaith Pharaon, a B.C.C.I. front man who is building a Hyatt Hotel in Buenos Aires and is a friend of Javier Gonzalez Fraga, the former president of Argentina's central bank. "We already know that the next scandal is going to tie President Menem with Ghaith Pharaon," an official said...