Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...open up the whole Bay of Pigs thing again." When Haldeman did ask CIA Director Richard Helms that day to intercede with the FBI, he reports he at first got nowhere. Helms insisted that no CIA operation would be compromised if the FBI traced the money through a Mexican bank. But then Haldeman did as he was told by Nixon, warning that "the Bay of Pigs may be blown...
...chief impact of the human rights policy has occurred not in the Communist world but in developing countries, where the U.S. dispenses largesse and therefore has leverage. The principal instruments for applying pressure are Public Law-480 food aid, grants from the Agency for International Development, military aid and bank loans-all told, nearly $10 billion annually...
...nine new settlements. The problem lies in the fact that the last four of these settlements were placed in army "camps" that had been created only a few weeks earlier-and obviously for the sole purpose of providing an excuse for a civilian settlement. At Karnei Shomron, a West Bank settlement into which civilians moved last week, the military facilities consist of a single guard hut and two shacks for billeting ten to 20 reservists...
...political situations." He added, "What facts is the government trying to create in the midst of the negotiation process? What would happen if the other side tried to do such things? How can one respect a government that carries out settlements whether under an archaeological [i.e., the disputed West Bank settlement at Shiloh] or a security cover?" Rabin's summary of how his successor has handled the negotiations: "An ill-conceived failure...
Cabot's claim is plausible. The stocks, purchased last year, have appreciably declined in value, as have many bank stocks, and a periodic housecleaning of a large portfolio is to be expected. The stocks may have depreciated at least partially because of mounting political pressure. It is difficult to ignore the political significance of the sale; still, taking the University at its word, the decision should have had political, as well as financial consideration...