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Coleman's DEA front in Nicosia, called the Eurame Trading Co. Ltd., was located on the top floor of a high-rise apartment near the U.S. embassy. He says the intelligence agency paid him with unsigned Visa traveler's checks issued by B.C.C.I. in Luxembourg. Additionally, the DEA country attache in Cyprus, Michael Hurley, kept a drawer full of cash in his office at the embassy, which he parceled out to Coleman and to a parade of confidential informants, known by such nicknames as "Rambo Dreamer," "Taxi George" and "Fadi the Captain." Hurley admitted in a Justice Department affidavit that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pan Am 103 Why Did They Die? | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...large number of college credit cardholders is indicative of aggressive marketing by companies such as American Express, MasterCard and Visa. Not only do many of these companies waive minimum income requirements, they also offer incentives aimed at college students...

Author: By Nell M. Maluf, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: You Gotta Give 'Em Credit | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...credit card craze is not limited to credit card companies like American Express, MasterCard and Visa. Retail, oil and phone companies have created their line of credit cards for customers...

Author: By Nell M. Maluf, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: You Gotta Give 'Em Credit | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

Banks such as BayBank Systems Incorporated, CitiBank, Chase Manhattan and Nations Bank also offer incentives to woo college students to open MasterCard and Visa accounts...

Author: By Nell M. Maluf, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: You Gotta Give 'Em Credit | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...lumber and tobacco millionaire whose pro-military Justice and Unity Party won the most seats in Thailand's first parliamentary elections since a bloodless coup 13 months ago. Soon after Narong was named to head a five-party coalition government, Washington officials disclosed that he had been denied a visa to enter the U.S. last July because of alleged links to Thailand's opium and heroin trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: A Whiff of Opium | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

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