Word: chasing
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Many European and U.S. bankers have been at odds since mid-November. It was then that Chase Manhattan and six other large U.S. banks in an eleven-member syndicate used their voting majority to declare a $500 million loan to Iran in default. That raised fears of still further defaults and sparked the rush to seize Iranian assets as compensation...
Pressure is mounting on Chase in Europe to reconsider and reverse the default. One reason: the bank apparently did not tell its European partners that Iran had asked for a transfer of its funds to pay the interest on the loan, but that this payment had been blocked by President Carter's freeze on Iranian assets one day before it was due. Some Europeans now charge that the U.S. banks are acting as mercenary scouts of the Carter Administration in its campaign against Iran and that they have stopped playing the banking game under the gentlemanly rules of prior...
West German bankers have been particularly angry. Morgan Guaranty, one of Chase's U.S. partners in the defaulted $500 million loan, went into a German court and attached Iran's 25% investment in two big German companies, Friedrich Krupp and Deutsche Babcock. Last Tuesday, a day after a terrorist bomb exploded outside the bank's Frankfurt office, Morgan obtained a second court lien on the same assets to cover yet a further Iranian debt. The German bankers had thought they would have first call on these assets if Iran failed to pay some of its German loans...
...Administration struggled to extricate the hostages-and the U.S. -from the Iranian blackmail abroad, a bitter, backbiting controversy arose at home. It revolved around three questions: 1) Had the deposed Shah's two most prominent American friends, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, exerted excessive pressure to get the Shah into the U.S.? 2) After long advocating that the Shah be given sanctuary in the U.S., had Kissinger then tried to score political points by publicly criticizing the Administration for appearing weak in a crisis that he had helped to create...
...argued that the attachment orders, which are automatically issued in West Germany in cases of disputed debts, were necessary to cover possible losses from Iran's default on a $500 million loan. It had been made by an eleven-bank syndicate that included Morgan and was headed by Chase Manhattan Bank. In fact, Morgan Guaranty's $40 million share of the loan is more than covered by the estimated $8 billion to $9 billion in Iranian assets that were frozen in U.S. banks by presidential decree...