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Secretary of State James Baker III recently announced his intention to visit China later this month, breaking a de facto U.S. ban on high-level contacts since the summer of 1989. His mission is to express U.S. concerns to the Chinese government. But to his counterparts in Beijing, the trip is significant mostly for its symbolic value...
THREE BLIND MICE: HOW THE TV NETWORKS LOST THEIR WAY by Ken Auletta (Random House; $25). It's no secret that CBS, NBC and ABC began hitting the skids in the mid-1980s; this long book reports the high-level pratfalls in meticulous and sometimes gossipy detail...
B.C.C.I. did more than finance or broker arms deals between nations that couldn't risk exposure of politically embarrassing relationships. Arms dealers from Europe and the Middle East, as well as a high-level operative from B.C.C.I.'s Karachi-based black network, have separately provided TIME with nearly identical descriptions of some of B.C.C.I.'s elaborate services for the sale of conventional weapons. "They could handle everything," says one of those sources. "Brokering, financing, letters of credit, false end-user certificates, shopping, spare parts, training and even personnel. You could order a bomb, a plane to deliver it and somebody...
...addition to his claims of high-level conspiracy, Casolaro did research that put him on the trail of some dangerous characters. A key part of his investigations, for example, centered on gambling and attempted arms deals at the Cabezon Indian reservation near Indio, Calif. One figure in Casolaro's proposed book would have been John Philip Nichols, a financial adviser to the Cabezons, who was sentenced to four years in prison in 1985 for attempting to hire a man to kill two people...
...investigate B.C.C.I. that he now says he believes it was part of a deliberate strategy. Says Blum: "There's no question in my mind that it's a calculated effort inside the Federal Government to limit the investigation. The only issue is whether it's a result of high-level corruption or if it's designed to hide illegal government activities...