Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they may prove to be substantial. At the very best, a Cairo-Jerusalem accord can only be a first step toward a general reconciliation of Israel with all its Arab neighbors. Central to this reconciliation is a resolution of the Palestinian question. In seven Arab towns on the West Bank, Palestinian crowds greeted last week's news with jeers and barrages of stones. Israeli troops in Halhul impetuously fired into a crowd, killing two demonstrators, one of them a 17-year-old girl...
...sector of Iran's society is untouched by the Ayatullah's dictates. Mohammed Ali Mohlavi, governor of the central bank, announced that he would look into setting up an Islamic banking structure in which no interest would be charged on loans. Most hotels and restaurants began to conform with a prohibition on alcoholic beverages. X-rated films disappeared from cinemas, and television programs like The Six Million Dol lar Man will no longer be broadcast. A mutton shortage loomed as a result of the Ayatullah's ban on meat imported from Australia and New Zealand. Because...
...both of which are big buyers of Iranian oil, make clear that he would not be welcome, while Britain, where the family owns a 166-acre estate outside London, is distinctly cool to his living there. Even Switzerland, the Shah's favorite vacation retreat, where he has extensive bank accounts and major property holdings including a villa near Saint-Moritz, acknowledges that a visit by the Shah would require prior Cabinet approval...
...breakfast was to acquaint the corporate chiefs with some of them. Says Marilyn Brown, 41, also a candidate and president of her own consulting firm: "Our approach is to make ourselves available." The "available" group also included Lynn Salvage, 32, president of the First Women's Bank of New York; Julia M. Walsh, 55, chairman of Julia Walsh & Sons, a Washington brokerage firm; Suzanne Jane, 35, a partner at Century Capital Associates, an investment advisory firm; and Rosalie Wolf, 37, a vice president of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, investment bankers...
...years, these "frozen assets" have been a major block to trade because the Chinese could not send ships or planes to the U.S. for fear that they might be confiscated under court orders. Now the U.S. has agreed to free blocked Chinese bank accounts totaling $80.5 million, and Peking has agreed to pay just that amount against 384 separate American claims totaling $196.9 million. The China payout is about 41? on the dollar, a settlement that is high by the standards of other similar U.S.-Communist pacts, but which is worth only about 15? per dollar in 1949 terms...