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...levels, B.C.C.I. officials whisked deposits into secret accounts in the Cayman Islands. These accounts constituted a hidden bank within B.C.C.I., known only to founder Abedi and a few others. From those accounts, B.C.C.I. would lend massive amounts to curry favor with governments -- as in its $1 billion loan to Nigeria -- or to buy secret control of companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: B.C.C.I.: The Dirtiest Bank of All | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

...authorities sift through B.C.C.I. subsidiaries around the world, they are trying to cope with potentially massive losses of depositors' money. The Pakistani press spoke of "panic withdrawals," and one paper added that "smugglers and drug barons" were desperately trying to rescue their offshore accounts. In such countries as Nigeria and Botswana, officials were worried that central-bank deposits at B.C.C.I. might be lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: B.C.C.I.: The Dirtiest Bank of All | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

Last week: A chartered plane carrying 247 Muslims home to Nigeria crashed leaving Jidda, killing all aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia: Pilgrims' Plight | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...every side today ethnicity is breaking up nations. The Soviet Union, India, Yugoslavia, Ethiopia, are all in crisis. Ethnic tensions disturb and divide Sri Lanka, Burma, Indonesia, Iraq, Cyprus, Nigeria, Angola, Lebanon, Guyana, Trinidad -- you name it. Even nations as stable and civilized as Britain and France, Belgium and Spain, face growing ethnic troubles. Is there any large multiethnic state that can be made to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cult of Ethnicity, Good and Bad | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...reinforce the problem. I don't see why there should be a boys' or a girls' school in the first place. I would never send my daughters to an all-girls school or an all-black school, not if I could help it. This is America. This is not Nigeria. It's made up of all these different cultural strains, and I want them to know about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Race Man Argues for a Broader Curriculum: HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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