Word: passport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July, Bird found another source, a relative of Granberg's, who revealed that three months before the accident, Granberg had visited his brother Richard, an ex-convict who lived in Puerto Rico. The relative said Granberg told his brother about the bogus death plot and borrowed his passport. Says Marr: "We believe now that they started planning this almost two years before he disappeared...
...together the scam, the investigators speculate that the scenario unfolded this way: Rignola and Farriel let Granberg off the boat shortly after they left shore, where he was picked up by his wife and driven to the airport to board a flight to London, using his brother's passport. He had friends and contacts in London, where he sometimes used his brother's name and sometimes used the name James Kelly. Six months later, Judy Granberg met her husband in London and stayed with him at an elegant hotel. Then Granberg, investigators believe, returned to New York with...
Rebecca Scruton, 28, a Meriden, Conn., mother of two young children, had become a widow in December, when her husband Dale, 30, died of cancer. She was on Flight 007 only because she had a passport problem when she went to board an earlier flight; her children were not with her. There were 269 such stories of personal poignancy...
...frolicked on the beaches of Skorpios, made side trips to other Greek islands and nibbled-well, all right, feasted-on the local cuisine. But when the heiress boarded her personal Learjet to fly home to Nice, France, from Aktion military airport last week, an official took her passport and forbade her to leave the country. Reason: a pending court case in which the Greek government claims that Christina owes $33 million worth of inheritance taxes on her father's property. That was when Christina began throwing her weight around. She furiously paced the runway, screaming at everyone in sight...
...past few years has created what analysts describe as an enormous pent-up appetite for vacations abroad. TWA Spokesman David Venz observes, "A vacation in Europe is easily deferred. People who have been working have been salting their money away." Lines have never been so long at U.S. passport offices. Between January and May, Americans picked up 2,021,007 passports, a 26% increase over the same period a year ago. At Manhattan's 630 Fifth Avenue passport office, applicants sometimes stand in line for as long as four hours. Alitalia flights from New York to Italy have been...