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...also began to push for loan guarantees from the Federal Export-Import Bank, which helps American companies sell products abroad by offering loan guarantees. Documents made public by Gonzalez show that in December 1983, Under Secretary of State Eagleburger wrote a secret letter urging bank chairman William Draper III to open a line of credit for Iraq, though most of the world's financial institutions had stopped lending to Baghdad and the Export-Import Bank's own analysts had concluded that Iraq could not be counted on to repay...
...following June, Vice President Bush telephoned Draper, an old friend from Yale, to urge approval of $500 million in loan guarantees for a pipeline through Jordan to deliver Iraqi oil to the Red Sea. The bank approved the loan guarantees the next week. Because the pipeline was never built, the guarantees were never used. But the bank also soon began providing Iraq with $200 million in short-term loans. Within months Baghdad fell behind in its payments...
...bilingual; all told, they speak 118 languages. "As any traveler knows, it can be frustrating to deal with a complicated problem if you don't speak the language. We find customers are relieved to find that someone on the other end of the line can understand," says Ronna Draper, an operator and Spanish- language student at the University of Utah...
...best psephological technique, is thought to gain extra credibility if 1 out of 250 million citizens can be found to restate its findings in prose. "Seventy percent of Americans list inflation as one of their top five concerns. 'These prices are just getting out of sight,' says Judy Draper, 38, a data processor and mother of three in Molina...
...Ronald Reagan, a President clearly hostile to environmental interests. In one recent poll some 80% of Americans said they would support more strenuous environmental efforts regardless of cost. But better measures of the nation's sense of urgency about preserving the planet are the stories of people like Lynda Draper, 40, whose fight against ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon emissions began in the kitchen of her Ellicott City, Md., home early last year. "I was basically a PTA volunteer," says Draper, until the day a General Electric repairman came to install a new compressor in her refrigerator. He asked her to open...