Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first searchers reported finding $500,000 in cash, many U.S. Treasury checks, an unspecified quantity of gold ?and about 870 U.S. passports. The fact that Jones was rumored to keep some $3 million in cash at his commune raised a mystery as to whether large amounts of money were missing. The passports far exceeded the number of bodies first reported to have been found in Jonestown, promoting belief that hundreds more of the cultists had fled into the jungle...
...left Viet Nam with the knowledge of either the Hanoi government or high Vietnamese officials. Refugees have testified that since July a scarcely concealed escape network has been in existence that allows people, especially of Chinese descent, to leave the country for a price-currently about 10 oz. of gold, or roughly $2,000, per person. "It's all organized by the government," says one Vietnamese Chinese who arrived in Thailand this month. "They want the gold, and they feel that we overseas Chinese are no use to them anyway...
Whether pay-and-escape is in fact Hanoi policy remains unconfirmed. But a number of refugees say that those who want to leave Viet Nam can simply register with a middleman and make a down payment in gold or dollars. They are taken to ports where they hand over the rest of the exit price, then are ferried to a ship just outside Vietnamese territorial waters. At least two such vessels have been used. One is the Hai Hong, the other a 900-ton coaster, the Southern Cross, which ran aground in Indonesian waters last Sept. 21 carrying more than...
Well-tailored and wan, Jeremy Thorpe, 49, former leader of Britain's genteel Liberal Party, sat quietly in the red-brick Somerset courthouse, taking occasional notes with a gold ballpoint pen. Despite his pallor, Thorpe looked more like the practicing barrister he once was than the principal defendant in what London's hard-breathing Daily Mail is calling "the case of the century...
...years, we have maintained that we will not accept certain advertisements that have been shown to contribute, in a specific way, to the oppression or exploitation of a defined group or class. That reasoning led us last year to refuse ads for the South Africa Krugerrand gold coin, and to reject advertisements placed by the South Africanbased de Beers diamond mining firm. ads, it was clear, enabled one group of people to perpetrate specific economic and political injustices against the blacks of- South Africa. For us to have accepted money for those ads would have given us, in effect, clients...