Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leasing Corp., the Atlanta holding company for Thevis' pornographic distribution firms and retail outlets. King testified that Thevis' father George was seen carrying paper bags and manila envelopes stuffed with cash from the Fidelity offices. Before his elimination, Underbill deposited large sums of money in a Bahamian bank account. Thevis then borrowed money from the bank. An attorney placed shares of AT&T worth $297,000 in a trust in Thevis' name at a bank on Nauru Island, a tax haven in the South Pacific. The stock was then sold on the Hong Kong exchange...
...main sticking point, as always, was "linkage"-the relationship between the pending Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty and the pursuit of a broader peace that will, among other things, provide autonomy for the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of the recent Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which condemned the Sadat peace initiative and the Camp David accords, the Egyptians are more determined than ever to prove to their Arab brethren that they are not selling out the cause by making a separate peace with the Israelis...
...First Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Osama el Baz calls "the chronological parallelism" (euphemism for linkage) between Israel's Sinai withdrawal and preparations for self-rule in the occupied territories. In these letters the two leaders would pledge that 1) talks on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza would begin within one month of the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and 2) elections for local governing councils for those territories should take place by the end of 1979. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance presented the plan to Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan...
Meanwhile, Sadat offered a compromise proposal of his own. In effect, he suggested that the negotiators set aside the question of the West Bank for the moment and concentrate on Gaza. The West Bank is just too complicated and too emotional an issue for both the Israelis and the Arabs, he was implying, and Egypt was hardly in a position to negotiate alone on behalf of the West Bank Palestinians, while neither they nor Jordan's King Hussein was willing to join the peace process...
...negotiating self-government for Gaza, and that Israel allow the Egyptians to maintain civil order there until local governments have been established. Sadat thought it possible that some Gaza leaders could be persuaded to join the talks. He also believed that if a Gaza settlement could lead to West Bank negotiations, then perhaps Hussein and some of the West Bankers might be willing to participate. As Egyptian Vice President Husny Mubarak put it in Washington last week, "We would like to push both the West Bank and Gaza at the same time, but Gaza may come first because...