Word: passport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...officials began to detect a link between the bomb in Awad's suitcase and the one that had blown a hole in the Pan Am jet three weeks earlier. But U.S. policy did not yet support a pursuit of Rashid. So Awad stayed where he was, content with the passport, BMW and $1,750-a-month salary offered by the grateful Swiss...
...that time, Awad felt, the U.S. had treated him shabbily. While he had been hailed by a Senate panel as "a hero for the American people," Washington had taken seven years to issue him a green card -- and still would not honor his request for citizenship and a passport. Moreover, payment of his reward money had been stalled after Rashid's murder conviction in 1992, then again a year later when the verdict was upheld. Now, finally, a check for $750,000 was going to be placed in his hands. But he had given up hoping for the presidential handshake...
...life. In 1986 he quit the witness program and opened a convenience store. After Rashid was arrested in Greece in 1988, Awad was persuaded to return to the witness program. While Athens and Washington wrangled over Rashid's extradition for the next three years, Awad was refused a passport and permission to visit his relatives abroad. He grew so depressed that he threatened to kill himself...
Concepcion is not alone. She is joined in her daily (and nightly) vigil by her friend William Thomas, whom she met over a decade ago after he was thrown out of Britain for destroying his passport and declaring himself stateless. (Thomas, Concepcion says, is in court on this Wednesday after being arrested for calling the police "fucking fascists...
...backed up by questioning of hotel personnel and inspection of guest registers, indicate that Sarhadi was in touch with both the Istanbul base and the Geneva hotel where hit-man Azadi stayed just before his escape from the country. Sarhadi's lawyer, Nuri Albala, admits that his client's "passport arrived in Switzerland on Aug. 13, 1991" but insists that someone else was using it. The travel document was "stolen," says Albala, after being handed over to the Iranian airport police...