Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sniff out the presence of cocaine residue in suspect bundles of cash. Political measures are also being taken. An amendment passed by Congress in October 1983 stipulates that the President should cut off aid to any country that has failed to meet projected reductions in narcotics production. The first victim of that law, some Washington officials believe, could be Bolivia, which is to receive $48 million in U.S. assistance during the current fiscal year. "Bolivia's not going to get another dollar, so far as I'm concerned," Republican Senator Paula Hawkins of Florida, the amendment's sponsor, told TIME...
...Julian Melo, the general secretary of the Panamanian National Defense Forces High Command, was arrested, accused of allowing the Colombians to transport the ether through the country in exchange for a $2 million bribe. Melo was never prosecuted, however, and many Panamanians assumed that he was merely a symbolic victim sacrificed to appease / Washington. "It stretches the imagination," said a Western diplomat in Panama, "to think that nobody but Melo could have been aware of the dealings...
Bank of America fell victim to an elaborate mortgage-securities scam involving overvalued real estate in the Southwest. In one instance, according to charges in a lawsuit filed in Texas, a company run by Southern California Businessman Kent B. Rogers bought three apartment complexes in Houston for about $12 million and hired an appraiser to value them at twice their true worth. Then a Rogers associate bundled the inflated mortgages on the apartments into securities that were sold to savings banks and other investors. Bank of America investigators are looking into why its Inglewood, Calif., branch agreed...
...taking. Tom seemed most content playing bridge, in bowler and brolly, with his wife's mother (Margaret Tyzack) and brother (David Haig). Viv imagined herself, with a mixture of impishness and foreboding, as the mistress of Dr. Crippen, the Edwardian wife murderer. Nice judgment, that: Viv is the picturesque victim slipping into madness, and Tom is the deadly St. Eliot, ( condemned because he took advantage of a sinner...
Referral to the Toronto center comes from community groups and immigration lawyers. But many survivors still enter countries as normal aliens. One Afghan woman, admitted to a Montreal hospital last year and treated for kidney infection and hysteria, was not identified as a torture victim for months. There are problems of language and culture, says Cowgill, and few doctors recognize the signs of torture. Many patients also are tight-lipped about their ordeals...