Word: visas
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Last week it was Washington's turn to throw a somewhat ungraceful feint that left all involved feigning outrage. On the very day he was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles, the State Department rejected the visa application of Oleg Yermishkin, Moscow's designated attaché to the Summer Games. Yermishkin, who served as a first secretary at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1973 to 1977, was later tabbed as having been an intelligence agent during that period. Washington read Moscow's attempt to place him for a six-month stay in Los Angeles...
...ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance. D'Aubuisson has been accused of being linked to the right-wing death squads that have killed thousands of people in the country over the past four years; in a deliberate show of disapproval, the State Department last November denied him a visa to visit...
...Aubuisson's populist rhetoric contrasted sharply with his reputation as a right-wing extremist. The boyish-looking onetime Salvadoran police major, now 40, has consistently tried to delay implementation of U.S.-sponsored efforts at land reform in El Salvador. Last November, D'Aubuisson was refused an entry visa to the U.S., a rebuff linked to his alleged ties to the country's nefarious right-wing death squads. For the present, however, he wishes to appear a man of the people, and is running hard in a long-awaited presidential-election campaign that is crucial both...
Gianetti and two other investigators at First Data Resources have been working on the case since the summer. Their firm has contracts with area banks and the national credit cards MasterCard and Visa, Richard A. D'Amico, chief investigator on the case, said last month...
Nationally, credit card fraud may approach $1 billion annually, according to industry sources. A spokesman for the American Bankers Association said last month MasterCard and Visa, the two largest national credit cards, were projecting total losses due to fraud of $200 million...