Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volatile issue of the West Bank and Gaza Strip will be played down in order not to hold up the treaty. Nonetheless, the Egyptian team will try to get as much linkage as possible between its Sinai deal and the future status of these occupied territories. The Egyptians expect the Israelis to make some unilateral gestures on the West Bank to parallel the Sinai talks. For one thing, they want the Israelis to dismantle their military government at about the time that an Israeli-Egyptian peace pact is signed. Another gesture could be the release of a sizable number...
...Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza have denounced 'the Camp David accords as a sellout; Jordan's King Hussein has resisted all efforts to bring him into the peace process. In a recent secret meeting with a leading Israeli official, TIME has learned, Hussein again refused to join the negotiations. He complained that the Israelis had not left him any options that would make it possible for him to participate. Offering to give "all the guarantees you need that the West Bank will never become a Palestine Liberation Organization state," the King pleaded with the Israelis...
Last May, the Corporation purchased the first in a series of certificates of deposit, totalling $11 million, in Manufacturers Hanover, a bank that publicly supports a policy of making loans to the South African government if the end result is overall economic growth...
...Corporation, however, stated in its report last April that it agreed with the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, which said it is "often too difficult" to evaluate bank loans on the basis of which segments of society they benefit. The report instead recommended the University refrain from holding debt securities in banks making loans to the South African government...
...aftermath of the 1961 Sharpville massacre in which South African police killed 67 unarmed African demonstrators, foreign capital took flight, bringing the white minority regime perilously close to collapse. Ever true to his friends, Charles Engelhard engineered the American bank loans that helped refloat the South African economy and its instruments of repression...