Word: manila
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...office he was a wild and crazy guy. In June, police say, Hall took a day off, went to a bank in Queens and threatened to blow a teller's head off unless he handed over some cash. But as he fled the scene with $725, Hall dropped the Manila envelope he used to conceal a gun and a holdup note. The envelope was stamped with his employer's address, and although the address had been inked out, the FBI was able to track him down two weeks...
Start packing the shoes -- Imelda Marcos is free to go home. For the past five years, the exiled wife of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has been barred from her native land by President Corazon Aquino's coup-plagued regime. But last week Manila lifted the ban so it could begin criminal prosecution of Marcos, who under Philippine law must be present at her trial. The aim: to recover $350 million in allegedly ill-gotten wealth now frozen in Swiss bank accounts...
...Swiss federal court ruled in December that the money should be freed in one year unless Marcos is indicted in the Philippines on criminal charges linked to the accounts. A day after announcing that Marcos and her three children could come home, Manila filed 29 charges of tax fraud against the family, including 11 against Imelda...
Negotiations wound up quickly last week after Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney announced that the U.S. was no longer interested in Clark because it would cost too much to repair the damage done by the volcano. The next day Manila agreed to a 10-year extension of the American lease on Subic Bay for an annual payment of $203 million, beginning...
American representatives deny they will use the catastrophe to drive a tougher bargain. But U.S. Defense Secretary Richard Cheney has questioned "the cost of our obligations to the Philippines should we continue to use these facilities." That could bode ill for Manila, which had hoped for hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance in return for renewal of U.S. base rights...