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...Portugal pulled out of Angola, matters became complicated. In September and October, Gulf made routine payments totaling $116 million to the Banco de Angola in Luanda, to the official who had previously accepted royalties and taxes for the Portuguese administration. It turned out that the man was working for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), which is being supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba. Angola became officially independent in November, and the M.P.L.A., which already controlled Cabinda, took over the government in Luanda, and presumably the $116 million. Gulf was due to pay another $95 million...
...Hispanic gold as survived the ravages of conquistador and tomb robber belongs to Bogotá's Museo del Oro. In an effort to stem the flow of these exquisitely wrought masks, figurines, pectorals and pins out of Colombia and into foreign collections, the museum-underwritten by the national Banco de la República-has preserved some 20,000 pieces, dating from the end of the 1st millennium onward, since it began collecting 35 years ago. Two hundred of these are now on view, through July 28, at the Center for Inter-American Relations in Manhattan...
...this climate of chauvinism, it is all the more unusual to find a successful bank devoted to, and run exclusively by women. Founded a year ago in Madrid, the Banco de la Mujer (the Woman's Bank) has already opened five provincial branches...
...banker. As managing director of Crédit Lyonnais, the eighth largest bank in the world (assets: $15.7 billion), Saint-Geours is a proponent of the European movement toward multinational banking consortiums. The bank's two-year-old union with Germany's Commerzbank and Italy's Banco di Roma to form the CCB group is one of at least seven major liaisons; their main purpose is to provide big, convenient pools of capital in different currencies to help international firms expand. The CCB group commands assets of nearly $31 billion...
...Banco del Estado de Chile...