Word: bankes
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Carter yesterday ordered an unprecedented increase of a full percentage point in the lending rate at the nation's central bank, arranged to borrow up to $30 billion in foreign currencies to buy dollars that are unwanted abroad and ordered an increase in the sale of U.S. gold reserves...
Neither Sadat nor Begin has yet demonstrated a long-term commitment to resolving the problems in the Middle East. Nor do the agreements thus far reached indicate a settlement for the Middle East as a whole. Begin--in his insistence on retaining Israeli settlements on the West Bank--has already shown that the framework for peace only established the modalities for achieving a lasting solution to the tension in the Middle East...
Wary of charges by Arab rejectionists that they had betrayed the common cause, the Egyptians were determined to hold Israel to its promise of establishing Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza, which could lead to an Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty within five years. Thus, they proposed last week that the evolution toward normal diplomatic relations between Israel and Egypt should also take place over a five-year period. Specifically, they sought to insert a clause in the draft treaty calling for a review of the situation in five years. The Israelis spurned this idea, calling it a "nasty...
...Camp David accords because no agreement was possible; but Saunders assured Hussein that Washington-which maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv-still believes that Israel's jurisdiction over East Jerusalem is illegal. Saunders also said the U.S. anticipates a restoration of Arab sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza following the five-year period of autonomy...
...former President Gerald and Betty Ford, plans to marry Charles Frederick Vance, 37, a Secret Service agent and divorcee who met his future bride in June 1977 when assigned to a year's duty as a guard for the Ford family. Patty Hearst, 24, still in jail for bank robbery, is planning to marry Bernard Shaw, 30, a San Francisco cop who was one of her bodyguards when she was free on bail last year...