Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floor Security Pacific National Bank headquarters in Los Angeles looks like a granite-and-glass fortress. Dark-suited guards roam the lobby. Hidden cameras photograph customers as they make deposits and withdrawals. Yet last month, this stronghold was the site of a $10.2 million heist, the largest bank robbery in U.S. history. There were no guns, no masks, no getaway cars; indeed, the FBI reports that the Stanley Mark Rifkin thief never touched the money. The robber was so clever that the bank did not realize it had been robbed until told so by the FBI eight days afterward. Last...
...three-bedroom, $400-a-month apartment in the San Fernando Valley. Twice married, Rifkin's chief interest was computers, with which he often played chess. One of his clients was a company that serviced Security Pacific's computers, so his was a familiar face around the bank's headquarters in Los Angeles. Then... but wait...
...tale of Stanley Rifkin and the incredible bank heist actually began in early October. According to the San Diego Union, he approached Lon Stein, a reputable diamond dealer in Los Angeles, and claimed to be representing a legitimate company named Coast Diamond Distributors. Rifkin wanted to buy millions of dollars worth of diamonds. Stein placed the order with Russalmaz, a firm founded by the Soviet Union in 1976 to sell its diamonds. On Oct. 14, Russalmaz's office in Geneva received a message from a man identified only as a Mr. Nelson of Security Pacific National Bank, confirming that Stein...
Walzer said that while the Camp David meetings between Egyptian and Israeli leaders reached "substantive agreements" on the disposition of the Sinai region, they only set procedures for future negotiations of the West Bank issue...
...procedural agreements," Walzer said, significantly ensure two things: Negotiations on the specifics of a West Bank agreement will begin one month after the signing of the Camp David accord and these negotiations will establish an "autonomous Arab authority" in the area, although the exact nature of its sovereignty is unclear under the Camp David agreement...