Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last winter when the U.S. embassy in Tehran was seized by anti-Shah Iranians and the American Ambassador in Afghanistan was killed by terrorists, Defense Secretary Harold Brown was touring the West Bank of the Jordan River. His helicopter landed at an Israeli army post, and Brown went to a phone to talk with his deputy secretary in Washington. As soon as Brown finished his conversation, someone asked him if he intended to cut his trip short and return immediately to the Pentagon. "No," he said flatly. "Charles Duncan is there." Last week that trusted deputy was named...
...study the arguments, but as one of them explains: "There was no way to shortstop it, no place for it to go except to the President." Carter himself was part of the problem. He enjoyed minutiae, from details of shale rock formations to the precise boundaries of West Bank settlements. Says another aide: "Carter ended up mediating everything...
...three days and broke the $300-per-oz. barrier. It reached a record $303.85 before settling back slightly at week's end to just below $299. But the decline could well be temporary. Says Hans-Joachim Schreiber, the chief trader of West Germany's Dresdner Bank, which has been the biggest buyer at recent U.S. Treasury gold auctions: "There are no forces working to depress the gold price...
...years the UFCW has been battling the Seattle-First National Bank, the largest in the Northwest, to recognize the union as the bargaining agent for the bank's employees. The union has persuaded labor organizations and civic groups to withdraw deposits of more than $125 million from Seafirst. It has also begun to ask other unions to take their pension funds from Seafirst's correspondent banks in an effort to get them to break their ties. Last week the AFL-CIO called for a national boycott of Seafirst by union pension-fund managers...
...National Book Awards with something called the American Book Awards, that is a distinct possibility. The association grandly suggests that "a plaque or statuette designed by a major American artist" be awarded to winners. Unfortunately, there is no promise as yet of a checkette drawn on a major American bank...