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Although the Indian government-- which has governed Sikkim for the past five years--is usually reluctant to allow foreigners into the small country, Smith says the Indians desire for Western-style education will help him obtain a visa. "It's much better than just going there and knocking on some monastery door...
September 25--Giogio Napolitano, head of the culture section of the Italian communist party--who had been invited by the Government Department to lecture at the Center for European Studies--is denied a visa by the State Department on the grounds that he represents a danger to the national interest...
...money-market funds and similar to one created by Merrill Lynch in 1977. Under that program, customers with at least $20,000 in securities or cash in an account can put that cash into money-market funds, which currently earn about 14% interest. Customers can then use special Visa cards or checks issued through Merrill Lynch in stores, restaurants or anywhere else. Says Weill: "We can make the cash management account better." One idea: offer American Express's special gold credit card to Shearson's 500,000 customers...
...inevitable developments have led Jimmy Buffett a little further along the path of growing up. But he has only grown up to a certain extent. Though his trail has become littered with diapers and Visa receipts, along with the artifacts of a carefree existence, the independence of mind that makes his music distinctive still hangs on. It hasn't yet wasted away in Margaritaville...
Since any one arm of the various groups that rule Iran seldom knows what the others are doing, I was able to get a visa to travel to Pakistan. To confuse and elude the men who were trailing me, I made numerous appointments with important government officials on my home telephone, which I knew was tapped, and laid a false trail. Then I sneaked out of my home early one morning and flew to Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. With me I took a friend, Mirza Hashem Hosseini, and his wife, whose house had been raided and looted by a gang...