Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks like. In 1958 Rommel and lis family started collecting pennies in a glass jar. By last Thanksgiving he reached his goal of 1 million, which he stored in rolls of 50 in a footlocker. Last week the penny pincher deposited the 3½ tons of coppers in a bank, and promptly wrote out a check for a $7,500 Cadillac...
...much the same way, some military analysts suspect, Dung's initial advance into Cambodia last month was intended as a limited operation to secure the eastern bank of the Mekong River. But fierce fighting between September and December so decimated the 40,000 Khmer Rouge forces stationed along the border that Dung decided to repeat his 1975 triumph and launch an all-out attack. The Vietnamese, using in some cases captured U.S. equipment, were overwhelming in both numbers and skill. In a single day, aided by Soviet pontoon bridges, an entire mechanized division of 10,000 men crossed...
They train in the mountains of Spam's Basque region with weapons bought from the proceeds of bank robberies and extortion. They are mostly young, middle class, Marxist-Leninist in ideology. They carry out their bloody missions skillfully-eight political killings so far this year 63 last year-if sometimes reluctantly Says the mother of one: "My son did not enjoy killing, but he thought that otherwise nothing could be accomplished." Their acronym, ETA (for Euzkadi ta Azkatasuna, or Basque Homeland and Liberty), has become synonymous with terror in Spain. Their goal: an independent state composed of the four...
Powell said Carter did not know of the overdraft at the National Bank of Georgia--formerly headed by Bert Lance, the one-time budget director who resigned that post after allegations of security fraud in the fall of 1977--until two bank directors disclosed the discrepancy on Wednesday...
Lindsey Hopkins and Church Yearley, the two directors, revealed the overdraft as part of a report on Lance's affairs that was required by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hopkins and Yearley said, however, they believe the overdraft occurred because the bank was at that time inexperienced in its method of recording loans...