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Meanwhile, the spreading scandal continued to collect victims. Yannis Mantzouranis, former secretary to the Greek Cabinet and a Koskotas confidant, was arrested on allegations that he received $2 million from Koskotas in a Swiss bank account. Also jailed was Panayotis Vournas, general manager of the postal service. He was charged with depositing 7 billion drachmas (nearly $50 million) in the Bank of Crete in an attempt to shore it up shortly before the scandal broke last fall...
Nothing happens. The guards, however, improve living conditions for Anderson and the others, apparently in fear they might fall sick and die like Buckley. "Christmas in July" brings dinner of Swiss steak, vegetables and fruit, medical checkups by a kidnaped Lebanese Jewish doctor, and the chance to start worshiping together. Anderson, once a lapsed Catholic whose faith now grows stronger by the day, wheedles permission from Hajj to make his confession to Father Jenco. Later, all the hostages are allowed to hold daily services in their "Church of the Locked Door." They celebrate Communion with scraps of Arabic bread. Anderson...
...same day the news broke, Krebs announced it had stopped deliveries to Egypt, following an order issued by the Swiss government on March 2. Krebs also said it believed the equipment was intended only for pharmaceutical production. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied that Egypt had any plans to make poison gas. "This is the first I've heard of it," he said. "We are against chemical weapons." The U.S. now faces a potential dilemma: how to stand by its strong opposition to chemical weapons without alienating a strategic ally...
...broker for the chemical factory. Though they have yet to find proof that he knew the Libyans planned to make nerve gas there, at least one official flatly labels Barbouti "the central villain" of the plot and "the subject of intense scrutiny for some time." In fact, both the Swiss and West German governments are conducting criminal investigations of his role in the Libyan project, and tax authorities in England and Scotland are looking into his Byzantine business affairs...
...behind me," he says expansively. "If I phone now for $40 million, tomorrow I see the $40 million in my pocket. From friends -- Saudi, gulf, Iraqi. That's all like a consortium. I am a front man." He is also a man gifted in the ways of global dealmaking, Swiss bank accounts and multimillion-dollar real estate enterprises in a number of countries, including...