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...time. During the 15 months he spent in the wilderness, he built up a coterie of devoted friends and followers who have supported him in all his political ventures since then. His closest administrative and political assistant, Lev Sukhanov, who has been with him since those dark days, flew personally to the Crimea last week to accompany Gorbachev back to Moscow...
...Paul, who is a target of a Miami grand jury investigation of CenTrust, struggled to keep the institution's doors -- and coffers -- open. Pharaon assured regulators that he was backed by oil-rich Arabs who would keep CenTrust solvent. When that tack failed to deter officials, Pharaon and Paul flew CenTrust's corporate jet to Washington to give similar promises to M. Danny Wall, who chaired the Home Loan Bank Board at the time. (Wall recalled the meeting in an interview but said he could not remember the outcome.) After the session, regulators said CenTrust could remain open by selling...
...charges and countercharges flew, U.S. law-enforcement sources quietly acknowledged what the Gates report to Von Raab clearly indicated: that at least some government officials have known since the late 1980s of the secret black network within the bank whose existence TIME disclosed in articles in July. The network used bribery, extortion, kidnapping and possibly murder to further the bank's aims. Last week sources told TIME that the black network surfaced briefly in the U.S. during a sting operation that forced B.C.C.I. to plead guilty in Tampa last year to laundering drug money. Members of the group came forward...
...place of a scheduled Pakistan International Airlines commercial flight that was aborted at the last minute by prearrangement. The 707's radar transponder was altered to beep out the code of a commercial airliner, which enabled the plane to overfly several countries without arousing suspicion. "From Czechoslovakia the 707 flew to the U.S.," said the informant, insisting that none of the black-unit workers had any knowledge of what was in the heavy wooden crates. "It could have been gold. It could have been drugs. It could have been guns. We dealt in those commodities," Mustafa told U.S. authorities...
...producer-director Ivan Reitman to massage the script of Kindergarten Cop. ("I felt he was somewhat written out," says Reitman of original writer Murray Salem. Says Salem: "He was not that friendly to me.") James Caan recalls career missteps that included turning down the lead roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kramer vs. Kramer...