Word: bankes
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According to the newspaper stories, Lance may have: 1) misused funds of the Georgia bank, when he was its president, in a loan deal with the First National Bank of Chicago; and 2) mortgaged his political influence to get large personal loans. In addition, TIME has learned that Lance prodded the Carter Administration to help the chairman of a Tennessee bank that had lent...
...just drop this thing," said Ribicoff, "we would be doing a disservice to Mr. Lance, a disservice to the President and a disservice to the country." Meanwhile, investigators from the U.S. Comptroller's office gathered up the records of Lance's big loan from the First National Bank of Chicago...
...York Times Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, raised the question of whether the $3.4 million loan that was granted on Jan. 7, after Lance had accepted the sensitive OMB job, was a "sweetheart loan." Safire claimed rather breathlessly that the deal was an opportunity for the bank's chairman, A. Robert Abboud, who is extremely influential in Chicago Democratic politics, "to gain life-and-death financial control over the man closest to the President...
...Lance had borrowed $2.7 million from Manhattan's Manufacturers Hanover Trust to buy 21% of the stock in the National Bank of Georgia (NBG). It was to refinance this loan, and to repay other debts, that he sought his $3.4 million loan late last year...
...Arabs would prefer Geneva Up as a working model. But Begin made it plain that he would rather bargain face-to-face with Israel's enemies. Everything is, negotiable, he insisted, although it is clear that certain things are not-namely, any substantive Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank or restoration of Arab sovereignty to East Jerusalem. Begin also told Carter he was opposed to a single Arab delegation at Geneva and insisted that under no circumstances could known members of the Palestine Liberation Organization be present there, even as members of a Jordanian delegation. Explained Begin...