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...this should impede Klinghoffer's success. Already the opera has been scheduled by its other co-producers -- the opera companies of Lyon; Glyndebourne, England; San Francisco; and Los Angeles -- as well as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where it opens in September. This broad international debut will serve to confirm Adams, Goodman, Morris and Sellars as the foremost creative team working today on the operatic stage, and perhaps on any stage...
...donated $500,000 to help establish the Carter Center at Emory University in Atlanta, and began pumping donations into Carter's Global 2000 Foundation, which provided health care in the Third World. Sources close to B.C.C.I. say Abedi gave "millions" to the charitable project. Carter spokesmen would not confirm the amount but conceded that B.C.C.I. gave $1.5 million last year (the former President was not available for an interview on the subject of Abedi). That gift was accepted after B.C.C.I. was indicted and convicted for laundering drug money, but Carter has indicated that Abedi remains a friend...
...Price Waterhouse audit of B.C.C.I. completed in March 1990 and a supplemental audit completed the following month -- both now sought by U.S. investigating authorities -- detail irregular transactions that have caused hundreds of millions of dollars to disappear. The documents also confirm that B.C.C.I., not the Middle Eastern investors of record, holds the controlling shares of First American...
...audit traced insider loans, with funds parked in Bahrain and Panama, and "drawdowns not supported by requests from the customers," which is accounting jargon for money moved out of accounts without documentation of any kind. Bank officials familiar with the audit and other internal B.C.C.I. documents reviewed by TIME confirm the Price Waterhouse findings...
...Report of the Auditors to the Members of International Credit & Investment Co. (Overseas) Ltd., which said, "Customer deposits consist of confidential accounts which are not conducted as open accounts requiring periodic dispatch of statements. Furthermore, because of company policy we have not been able to confirm any deposit balances directly with customers, and therefore it is not possible for our examination of such accounts to extend beyond the amounts recorded." With this highly unusual qualification, the firm signed off on the accounts of the entity through which millions passed into a banking limbo -- including the unrepaid loans used by First...