Word: guido
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...release of any foreign hostages. The policy is a risky one. U.S. Police Adviser Daniel Mitrione was murdered last August by his captors, the Tupamaro guerrillas. British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson has been held by kidnapers for more than two months, and last week the guerrillas seized Attorney General Guido Berro Oribe for "questioning." Nonetheless, the Uruguayan government is hopeful that its policy will ultimately put an end to political kidnapings, since the Tupamaros have gained little for their trouble and, in resorting to murder, have lost their Robin Hood image...
Colombo, who is credited with executing the plans charted by Bank of Italy Governor Guido Carli for il Boom, also drew up legislation to get the country moving again after a slowdown caused by a wave of strikes. He moved to improve conditions in overcrowded universities and secondary schools. Two weeks ago, he won trade union backing for additional bills improving housing and medical care...
...Aboard. The multinational trend has built up a momentum of its own. Says Dr. Heinz Sippel, a Westdeutsche Landesbank representative at Orion: "There were a number of trains standing in the station, and we wanted to be sure to get aboard one of them before they all pulled out." Guido Carli, governor of the Bank of Italy, has long criticized Italian banks for lagging behind the "financial supermarkets" of the U.S., in size and range of services. By working together, Europeans will be able to provide both sufficient capital for the needs of the 1970s and the flexibility to deliver...
Administrative Ploy. Devaluation was prevented by Guido Carli, governor of the Bank of Italy, who made three shrewd moves. First, he raised the interest rates on Italian bonds to make them as attractive to lire investors as foreign issues had been. Next, through a neat administrative ploy, Carli made currency speculating less profitable. Foreign banks had been required only to report their lire intake by phone to their nearest correspondent bank in Italy to receive full credit in any currency. Carli decreed that banks abroad would have to send the lira bills to Rome before they could get foreign funds...