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...highly enough of Dole that Gingrich should be safe on those grounds." The terms are extremely good: Gingrich has eight years to begin paying back the loan with an interest rate of 1.5 percent over prime (currently 10 percent). But Dole, who made $500,000 from his Super Bowl "Visa" spot alone, does not need the money, and his offer may well be as selfless as it sounds. "Apparently, it was all Dole's idea," Carney says. "He's never been someone who cared too much about having money. It really seems that Dole saw a chance to help...
...post election tour has included interviews on Letter-man, one-liners on Saturday Night Live and a commercial for Visa...
...apparently unable to do this in a timely way, or sometimes to do it at all. Fraud happens between those stovepipes. "The IRS does not have a modern customer-service capability," says Jeff Trinca, staff director of the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS, "the sort of thing Visa and American Express do every...
...years Beijing has envied the popularity that Taiwan enjoys in Congress. But it resisted advice to imitate Taiwan and hire pricey Washington lobbyists to make its case. That changed in May 1995, when Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui was granted a visa to visit the U.S. to attend an alumni gathering at Cornell University. It was a step that followed a nearly unanimous vote in both houses of Congress. The Chinese were stunned by what appeared to be a departure from the U.S. policy of not having official contacts with Taiwan. "The Lee visit was a failure of their...
Luckily, that shouldn't happen. One day soon a government official or diplomat is expected to arrive with a visa, a plane ticket, some cash, to drive Zhang and her family to the airport and put them on a plane to freedom. Sources tell TIME that over the next few months more than 40 Chinese dissidents and their families who have languished hidden in Hong Kong with Zhang will at last be granted asylum in the West and secretly flown out of the territory. These departures will mark the end of the legendary "Yellowbird" underground railroad set up to rescue...