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After Drug Enforcement Administration agents nabbed a Chilean cocaine smuggler in Beverly Hills, Calif., they found in his bank safety deposit box only one item, a fraudulent U.S. passport. The phony passport and the forged visa have become standard equipment for drug traffickers, illegal aliens and others seeking a sure if shadowy passage abroad. A 1976 Justice Department report estimated that 80% of all hard drugs flowing into the U.S. were smuggled in with the aid of fraudulent passports. Today as many as 300,000 fugitives and terrorists use bogus identity papers, including U.S. passports and visas, to travel freely...
Lukoffs "embassy," founded only last year, has set up permanent shop in the former Chilean embassy (all foreign embassies have moved out of Jerusalem). At a time of dwindling religious and secular support for Israel, it acts as a center for visiting Christians and seeks to rally friendship for the Jewish state among the tens of millions of Evangelicals around the world. Most of the 30 full-time volunteer staffers, and many contributors to the monthly budget of $15,000, are Charismatics. Virtually all are millenarians, who believe that Zionism is part of God's design for the days...
...Yankelevich, Sakharov's stepdaughter, who immigrated to Boston in 1977, angrily denounced Soviet officials who are "demonstrating their power on the bones of the best citizens of Russia." Biologist Vladimir Bukovsky, 38, who had spent nine years in Soviet prisons and camps before he was exchanged for a Chilean Communist in 1976, listed some of the dissidents who have recently been dispatched to the Gulag, including Historian Arseni Roginsky, who was arrested last month on the charge of forging a library card. Said Bukovsky: "If all these writers, poets, editors and journalists were allowed to attend the present reception...
...Administration had frequently threatened a cutoff of aid to foreign governments accused of trampling on human rights. But Reagan last month lifted economic sanctions, which had been imposed on Chile when the Pinochet regime refused to cooperate in an investigation into the outrageous assassination in Washington, B.C., of former Chilean Diplomat Orlando Letelier. Earlier Reagan welcomed to the White House Chun Doo Hwan, President of South Korea, a nation deservedly criticized by Carter policymakers for its human rights violations...
Carlos Fuentes has come a long way since he began writing fantasies and adventure stories at age seven. He published his first pieces when he was 11 years old in a Chilean school publication, his first essay in Mexico when he was 13 years old, and his first novel, The Good Conscience, while a law student in his early...