Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combination of Government v. private borrowing," cautioned Walter B. Wriston, president of First National City Bank of New York, "already has caused interest rates for everyone to rise. It will get worse, much worse, in the absence of the tax surcharge." And Sidney J. Weinberg, a senior partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., prophesied "catastrophic developments in capital and credit markets" without...
...received some unwelcome attention. In a Saigon criminal court, where he failed to appear but was represented by two attorneys, he was found guilty by a civilian judge on charges of writing a bad check for $8,300 and transferring $11,500 from Viet Nam to a San Francisco bank in violation of the currency laws. The first charge carried a sentence of three months in jail and an $80 fine, the second six months plus a $27,600 fine...
...territories seized by the Israelis during the six-day war, the one that lends itself most to negotiation is Jordan's West Bank. The vast majority of its 900,000 Arabs remained there instead of fleeing, and the land they live on is fertile enough to support them. Moreover, many among them are not only capable of, but desirous of, coming to terms with Israel. Since the West Bank was part of Palestine for much longer than it has been part of Jordan, its people have neither a deep loyalty to the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan nor a consuming...
...first shots were fired, was so thoroughly discredited that Palestinians no longer want anything to do with him, and the Arab states have cut off the P.L.O.'s $15 million yearly subsidy. Shukairy's fall created a vacuum of leadership, which is now being filled by West Bank Arabs who hope to get the best deal they can from Israel...
...longer believe that the Jews can be driven out of Israel. But it also reflects the indisputable fact that life under the Israelis has not been as harsh as most Palestinians had feared. Money and private cars have been in short supply since the war, and the West Bank telephone system, sabotaged by the departing Jordanians, is still a shambles. But food is plentiful, including the fresh sea fish that Palestinians love and the Jordanians were unable to supply. More important, there have been no mass repressions, no raping of Arab women, no wholesale expropriations of Arab property. Palestinian businessmen...