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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Temple bank accounts around the world could total $20 million. Stoen himself set up two dummy corporations in 1975 for the Peoples Temple in Panama. One of them, called Briget, S.A., now has $2.5 million in a secret account, according to an American investigator. Said Stoen: "Jones wanted funds close by in case he had to quickly leave Guyana." U.S. investigators say Stoen and other top Jones aides also set up many personal accounts, and that the ones opened by Stoen totaled more than...
...former aide once said. She never forgot a slight. Yet she was willing to listen to almost anybody who asked for an audience, even though her listening could be a form of stonewalling. At the end, the coffee cups empty, the ashtrays full, the air staled in the close room, Golda would show her interlocutors into the thin dawn light-red-eyed, hoarse, exasperated, exhausted, knowing themselves defeated by the unshakable conviction of this indomitable woman. "It is like arguing before a judge," said one participant. "When she makes a decision, it's made...
...problems of Resorts stand to hurt other gaming companies that are planning to open casinos in Atlantic City. Applicants will now get especially close and careful scrutiny, and many openings will be delayed. This may well put a temporary crimp in the earnings and stock prices of such companies as Bally, Caesars World and Golden Nugget. As for Resorts, the betting on the Boardwalk is that the commission will vote as it has in the past: 4 to 1 in favor of a license...
...peels from Sunkist and ships them to Tokyo to be used in making marmalade, soy sauce and whisky. Katsumi Sato, the Japanese-American owner of Rexton, investigated the budding Japanese market for orange peels last year, liked what he saw and went into the business. Sato expects to earn close to $250,000 next year. He is looking into two other exports for Japan: shark fins for soup and jackets from the Los Angeles Police Department, popular with teenagers...
...instructive irony that the country that was for so long at the bottom of the heap in job creation is now so close to the top. The country is Ireland; its method of generating employment is to lure private investment, mostly from the U.S.; and its Pied Piper for industry is a former Gaelic football and hurling player, Michael Killeen. He is a man of Donegal, that scenic but tragic county in Ireland's west that sent so many of its youth to America (including four of Killeen's uncles and aunts) because they could not find work...