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...dead shot from the Chilean shooting team (and intelligence community) has been denied a visa for being too deadly, and the elegant Cuban baseball players have had to duck leaflets, airplane streamers and a brigade of fat bench jockeys in BAY OF PIGS T shirts. Worse than that, Cuba's team lost to the Americans, 6-4. By the gold-medal count, Cuba (51) and the U.S. (104) are already assured of second and first place, though the outcome of last week's most poignant ideological clash was ambiguous...
...worried as everybody else that their sons will go off and never come back." Virtually every family that has money or political connections is desperately attempting to bribe or contrive another way to get a young son out of the country. Often they ask Westerners to help arrange visas for prolonged trips abroad. Explains a Londoner who has friends in Iran: "They realize that the war is going to last a long time and that eventually a son is going to get called to the front. And they are simply unwilling to make that sacrifice." Since the ruptures in Iran...
...been tightened all over Europe. The airport in Athens, for example, now bristles with 1,200 security guards -- twice the previous number -- and many of them work undercover. France, once accused of lax attention toward the movements and activities of suspected terrorists, now requires all visitors to carry a visa. Cost: $15 for a three-year visa. The bureaucratic inconvenience of obtaining the document does not seem to be deterring tourists. The French consulate in Manhattan has been overwhelmed by a flood of some 2,000 applications a day and has opened a second office to handle the overflow. Jean...
...traditional homecoming: being confined to the Marine base in Quantico, Va. But Douglas Beane, 39, who was facing a court-martial when he deserted the Marines in Viet Nam in 1970, is not a typical returning traveler. Arrested last December when he applied for a visa at a U.S. consulate in Australia, Beane won a court battle that allowed him to stay in that country. Instead, he voluntarily decided to return to the U.S. so he could visit his ailing father in West Rutland, Vt. But when he landed at Los Angeles airport, U.S. marshals arrested him, and the Marine...
...Reed, who has made bold strokes before during his meteoric rise at Citicorp. As an executive vice president, for example, he led the bank into the computer era, field marshaling the firm's early entry into the area of teller automation and then directing Citicorp's heavy involvement with Visa and MasterCard credit cards. When it came to making a convincing move last week, Reed reached for a large number. Said he: "Obviously it's a judgment call. Any number with nine zeros can only be approximate. We're clearly costing stockholders a year's earnings...