Word: passport
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...from unnamed sources in the investment community that Levine was behind the deals. Armed with this information, U.S. officials persuaded lawyers for the bank to provide them with details of Levine's illegal trades. After learning about the SEC investigation, Levine ordered Meier to get rid of his passport and other documents at the Bahamian bank. On May 9, SEC officials say, Levine tried to transfer $10 million from the Bahamas to a bank account in the Cayman Islands. At that point SEC officials froze Levine's accounts and, along with U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, filed charges against...
When he arrived in Moscow last week, a Soviet official asked to see some identification. "My face is my passport," replied Vladimir Horowitz, 81, returning to his homeland for the first time since he fled to the West 61 years ago. The pianist, who is to perform two concerts in Moscow and Leningrad under a new U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange, was reunited with his niece Elena, 70, and visited relatives and old friends including Elena, daughter of Composer Alexander Scriabin, who had idolized Horowitz since her youth. While authorities have given the maestro a less than warm welcome, Horowitz clearly...
...innocent-looking document that resembles an ordinary passport, but for South Africa's 24 million blacks, the passbook is the most hated symbol of the apartheid system. It allows the government to enforce the pass laws, regulating where blacks can live, work and travel in the country. Last week, however, State President P.W. Botha told Parliament that effective April 23, he will suspend those laws and release all those jailed on pass offenses. About 100,000 blacks were arrested last year on pass-law violations...
...first joined the line I felt nervous, by the time the customs official motioned me to enter the next area I was considerably calmer. The three or four people in front of me went through customs quickly, without any search. The procedure seemed rather simple: the official took the passport, visa, looked at the customs declaration, asked for the cash or gold jewelery for verification, and the person stepped into Moscow...
...turn finally arrived. I put my bags in the platform to the left of the official. He asked me for passport, visa, customs declaration. After glancing at my passport, he withdrew a paper with numbers listed on it, studied it for a few minutes, and told me to put my suitcase on the table-top directly in front of him. I opened it, and he began removing items at a very slow pace, lingering over some of his finds such as the kosher bubble-gum cigarettes, an art book, music tapes, and matzah...