Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City last week, hardly any one showed signs of alarm about his safe ty, not even the federal prosecutors who had planned to try him next month for fraud. The charges stem from his pur chase in 1972 of a controlling interest in New York's Franklin National Bank, which collapsed two years later in the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. Reason for the calm: just about everyone figured that the kidnaping was a hoax...
...family reported getting a letter from his captors saying that he must answer to "proletarian justice." U.S. law enforcement officials remained skeptical and listed him as a "missing person" rather than as a kidnap victim. Said Italian Magistrate Guido Viola of Milan, where Sindona has been charged with a bank fraud totaling $225 million: "More likely, he has fled to some distant place. He has disappeared in his most difficult moment, when he was to come before American justice...
...last September, everyone knew the hard part was yet to come. While Egyptian-Israeli relations began a new era, the central issue of the Middle East remained unsettled: the fate of the Palestinian people. The Arab states basically favor an independent sovereign state for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, a home both for Palestinians already living there and for millions now in the diaspora. The Israelis, appalled at the notion of a hostile state, perhaps run by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, on Israel's very border, are determined that, whatever happens, the Palestinian...
...Menachem Begin, who is still recuperating from a mild stroke. But he saved the best part of his fire for the U.S., warning it against recognzing the P.L.O. or in any other way strengthening the chances of a wholly independent Palestinian state's develop ing in the West Bank and Gaza...
...P.L.O. as the legitimate bargaining agent for the Palestinians. Begin, who was released from his hospital bed last week after treatment for a blood clot that has impaired his vision somewhat, is certain to rebel at any U.S. attempt to dignify the P.L.O. and bring it into the West Bank negotiations. Says one senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official bluntly: "The problem facing Americans is how to involve the Palestinians in the autonomy talks without losing Israel as a participant...