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Amid the throngs of gamblers in Atlantic City, Debra Kim Cohen stood out. A former beauty queen, she dropped thousands of dollars at blackjack tables. Casino managers acknowledged her lavish patronage by plying her with the perks commonly accorded VIP customers: free limo rides, meals, even rooms. Cohen, after all, was a high roller. It apparently did not disturb casino officials that she was also a teenager and -- at 17 -- four years shy of New Jersey's legal gambling...
What accounts for CNN's admittedly VIP standing with the Iraqi government? The network's importance as a supplier of news in 103 countries around the world has a lot to do with it. As is now well known, its viewers include Saddam Hussein; during the gulf crisis, many Middle Eastern leaders, as well as many officials in the U.S., have relied upon CNN as a sort of instant 24- hour messenger service...
According to the officials, Murphy, who has been trained by the United States Secret Service, will either head a revamped VIP protection operation or leave the department entirely...
...reviled as the former Minister of the Interior and Defense under the exiled dictator Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and the onetime head of the dreaded Tontons Macoutes, but when Roger Lafontant arrived in Port-au-Prince from exile in Santo Domingo last week, he was given a VIP reception despite orders from the government not to admit him. Lafontant's unwelcome return came only a few days after the arrival of another exiled Duvalier associate, Major General Williams Regala...
...nonvoting member of the Politburo and prime minister of the federation, hardly seems the < stirring leader needed to carry out his boss's vision. When Vlasov delivered an hour-long report last week, it was so plodding that not even Gorbachev seemed to be listening. He sat in a VIP box and conferred with his senior advisers...