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...Open an inquiry into the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Meanwhile, Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist rival in last month's elections, who was once accused by former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White of plotting Romero's murder, received a visa to visit the U.S. After denying D'Aubuisson permission to enter the country during the past year, the State Department decided that the gesture might persuade the Salvadoran to cooperate with Duarte...
...probably still need to be merged with some stronger institution. The most attentive suitors for Continental appear to be New York's Chemical Bank and First National Bank of Chicago, Continental's neighbor and archrival. Chemical (1983 assets: $51.1 billion) last March acquired Continental's thriving Visa and MasterCard business for $176 million, outbidding First Chicago in the process. After poring over Continental's books last week, Chemical officers privately called the ailing bank's woes "not insuperable," and then publicly added that they were "taking a serious look...
When they went on a fast in 1981 to force the authorities to grant an exit visa to Semyonov's wife, the Kremlin relented after 17 days. The new, tough attitude toward the Sakharovs is seen by some Washington officials as yet another sign of the Soviets' truculent mood...
...part, Helms is hardly a dispassionate observer. When D'Aubuisson's request for a U.S. visa was denied last November, the Senator loudly complained. Deborah DeMoss, a Helms aide who has visited El Salvador numerous times in the past year, tried to arrange a speaking engagement for D'Aubuisson at Georgetown University last January...
...argues that it has lifted, for the period of the Games, an existing ban on Soviet airliners carrying passengers into the country and has granted permission for a Soviet ship to be used as a floating hotel. Administration officials maintain that they were justified in denying a visa to a suspected KGB official but insist that they would grant "unhindered entry" to accredited athletes. Privately, some officials acknowledge that the U.S. embassy in Moscow made a mistake in stating that Soviet athletes needed visas instead of identity cards, but they emphasize that the matter could have been sorted out quickly...