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...background is newspapering, but Robert Maynard showed the cunning of an investment banker last week in preventing the Oakland Tribune from closing down for good. Maynard, the only black owner of a metropolitan newspaper in the U.S., raised the last-minute cash by playing on the rivalry between the paper's largest creditor, the Gannett chain, and that company's retired chief, Allen Neuharth...
...case, Awan stayed put in 1988 and was arrested by law-enforcement officers investigating the bank's U.S. money-laundering operations. The hapless Awan, who had been personal banker to Noriega and others, was convicted of money-laundering charges with four other B.C.C.I. officers in Tampa last year and sentenced to 12 years in prison...
...acquired control of B.C.C.I. for $1 billion last year, was still fuming because the clampdown shuttered the bank without warning just as he was planning to restructure it. "He will do nothing unless there is incredible political pressure that he simply cannot resist," says a highly placed Arab banker...
...perceives the pervasive seething. The treatment of Palestinians is on everyone's mind, but deeper, more worrisome resentments are expressed, and none approach the disdain felt by those who stayed for those who left. "We cared for ourselves and proved our loyalty," says Nadyah al-Mudhaf, an investment banker. "The 'runners' wined and dined and discoed, and now they are back to treating us like we didn't exist. We love our rulers for all they have done for us economically, but they don't trust us enough to let us have a meaningful say in the running...
...route around the impasse may lie in a house that al-Husseini has just completed in Ayn Siniya, a West Bank village 15 miles north of Jerusalem. Shamir, who has already rejected al- Husseini as a potential delegate, could backtrack and assert that al- Husseini is now a West Banker. And al-Husseini could take his seat, staunch in his conviction that he still speaks for Jerusalemites...