Word: passport
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Ahmad, 44 years old, was a graduate of Stanford University and a doctoral student in sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Ahmad was a permanent resident of the United States and held a Pakistani passport...
...hijacker had a Syrian passport, a second a Bahrain passport, and a third Palestinian travel documents, said Pakistani intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. They said the nationality of the fourth hijacker was not known...
Investigators suspect the Tamils were victims of an international plot to make a profit by transporting refugees seeking asylum in North America. Hamburg police last week arrested two Tamils and a Turk on charges that included violating passport laws and "trafficking in humans." Police identified the vessel that brought the Tamils to Canada as the Aurigae, a 425- ton West German ship that flies the Honduran flag. The telltale clue: the Aurigae's owners had recently bought three lifeboats belonging to the cruise ship Regina Maris. Though attempts had been made to sand off the name, the words Regina Maris...
...accommodate the overflow. They have repeatedly demanded that their Eastern counterparts take steps to stop the traffic. But East Berlin, which earns valuable hard currency from selling airplane tickets to the refugees, contends that it is up to the Western allied forces, which still occupy West Berlin, to apply passport controls on their side. The allies refuse to do that on the grounds that it would amount to recognition of the boundary that divides the two Berlins as an international border. The irony, of course, is that West Berliners want East Berliners to close one door that has opened...
...result is an astonishing array of premier players. Lendl is backed up by Mecir (worldwide pro ranking, 20), Milan Srejber (32), Tomas Smid (35) and Pavel Slozil (85); fourth-ranked Mandlikova's teammates include Sukova (7), Andrea Holikova (78) and Regina Marsikova (79). In return for a passport, each of the athletes has agreed to clear participation in tournaments with the board, pay 20% of after-expense prize money to the federation, and kick in an additional $3,000 annually to defray travel expenses for junior players...