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...spying mission until a week after the Rainbow Warrior had been sunk. By that time the New Zealand police had arrested two French secret-service agents, Major Alain Mafart and Captain Dominique Prieur, who had been posing as a honeymooning Swiss couple. Charged with murder, arson and passport offenses, the two face a preliminary hearing in New Zealand in November...
Shirley Merchant of Danvers, Mass., was sight seeing at the Sacre-Coeur church in Paris when a friend warned her to watch her purse. Too late. The carefully zippered compartment inside her shoulder bag had been deftly picked. "It was all gone," she says. "My cash, traveler's checks, passport and every piece of identification...
...influx of visitors. Thieves are operating in formerly safe sites such as Paris' Latin Quarter and even idyllic Stratford-upon-Avon. Refunds for missing American Express Travelers Cheques have climbed by a significant margin. "The British don't want to advertise," says Dick Haegeley, chief of the Passport and Citizen's Unit at the American embassy in London, "but they should have a sign when you step off the plane: BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS." In Paris they are operating in overdrive. Reports of lost and stolen American passports are up as much as 20% compared with last year, and, while Paris...
Outside the U.S. embassy building in Moscow last week, a redheaded girl sat dejectedly on a metal railing. A Soviet dissident? An American with passport problems? Hardly. It was Amy Carter, 17, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, on a tour with a group of 150 Americans. Earlier, she and four friends, having heard about the cheeseburgers and French fries served at the embassy's snack bar, had arrived to have lunch. "They wouldn't let us in," Amy said. The snack bar, it seems, is open only to permanent members of Moscow's American community who purchase chits...
Kurt Carlson, 38, Rockford, Ill., roofing contractor. When he realized a hijacking was in progress, he pulled the identification from his wallet that showed him to be a major in the Army Reserve and stuffed it underneath his seat. Unfortunately, Carlson had an official U.S. Government passport. He says, "They identified me as being diplomatic. They saw it as either CIA or FBI." Carlson was beaten severely over a period of 4 1/2 hours. "They started hitting me on the back of the shoulders with an arm of a chair that was torn off." He remained in mortal danger until...