Word: graf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heather A. Graf Norton, Mass...
...clocks in Bonn stood at 15 minutes to midnight when Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff appeared at the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week to tender his resignation. The outspoken Lambsdorff, 57, who had spent nearly seven years in the key Cabinet post, is expected soon to be formally charged by the Bonn public prosecutor's office with accepting $50,000 on behalf of the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.) from the Flick Holding Co. in exchange for allowing the firm generous tax writeoffs. Lambsdorff, who will retain his seat in the Bundestag, insisted on his innocence. "The charges...
...seaside resort of Punta del Este, Uruguay. Grinspun headed the Argentine delegation, while William Rhodes, representing Citicorp, led an eleven-member team of bankers. One banker joked that Punta del Este would witness its most explosive confrontation since three British cruisers challenged the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the shores of the resort in December...