Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most notorious of the arrested terrorists was Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 28, a onetime journalism student who is a suspect in the murders of both Dresdner Bank Chairman Jurgen Ponto last July and of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last October. Peter Boock, 26, and Sieglinde Hofmann, 33, are also suspects in the killings. Rolf Clemens Wagner, 33, was on the wanted list not only for participating in the Ponto and Schleyer atrocities, but also for the 1977 ambush murder of West German Prosecutor Siegfried Buback...
Cavanagh and Granquist, who is a former Norwalk, Conn., bank president, have moved quickly to improve these costly methods. Their biggest accomplishment so far: putting to work some $1.5 billion in taxpayers' money that was deposited without interest in banks around the country; on July 1, the U.S. will begin receiving $75 million interest annually on that cash. Other savings come mainly from cleaning up administrative procedures, speeding collections and controlling payouts...
...sales abroad-of weapons and uranium, for example-the U.S. will gain $3.5 million a year in interest by getting paid not by bank checks but by speedy transfer of funds via computers. By speeding up billings of income taxes sent to companies, the Government will save $1 million in interest a year...
MARRIED. James L. Browning Jr., 45, former U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Patty Hearst for bank robbery, and is currently seeking the Republican nomination for California attorney general; and Linda Miltner, 35, a teacher's aide; both for the second time; in Hillsborough, Calif...
These days Flick, a shy-looking industrialist with horn-rimmed spectacles, has a problem, and it may cause a lot more smashed crockery in those Munich beer cellars. He pocketed $1 billion when in 1976 he sold to a German bank 29% of the stock of Daimler-Benz, which makes Mercedes cars. Under West Germany's tax code, Flick has to spend all of that sum by Dec. 31 in ways that will "benefit the national economy"-or else pay 50% in capital gains and income taxes...