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...case. Richard Bettini, an old friend of Vesco's who testified for the Government in the trial, says Vesco has a waterside villa near Havana with a private dock and a yacht. Bettini recounted flying to Havana in Vesco's private jet; even though Bettini had no visa or passport, airport officials "just faded into the woodwork" when Vesco appeared to meet...
...confirm their validity. A. Simone Reagor, director of Harvard's office of sponsored research, recalls one case where a professor took a legitimate trip to Africa but had no plane ticket or other voucher to prove he actually made the journey. Only when he produced his expired passport with visa stamps did the auditors approve the cost of the trip...
...wanted to take Master Card and Visa mail charges for our software catalog items." Grossman explains. "The Master Card man was kind of surprised when he came to a house and was asked into the living room by a 14-year-old," he recalls...
...further signal of the Administration's determination to maintain a hard line against Central American leftists, the State Department last week denied a visa to Ruben Zamora, a relatively moderate member of the F.D.R.-F.M.L.N. coalition that is fighting the Salvadoran government. Zamora, who has made frequent visits to Washington to woo members of Congress and has met in the past months with U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone, had been invited to speak in the U.S. The Administration's excuse was that Zamora had publicly welcomed the killing of a U.S. military adviser in El Salvador last...
Washington's game plan is simple: keep tensions with the Sandinistas high to increase their paranoia and hence their authoritarian impulses, and do nothing to help them develop more democratic institutions. The visa delays fits neatly into the latter half of the Administration's strategy...