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Willie ("The Actor") Sutton used to say that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is." The same reasoning - though not the same modus operandi-is prodding foreign businessmen and government representatives toward Tokyo in quest of loans and investment money. They get a warm welcome from Japanese bankers, businessmen and government officials, who face the unusual problem of reducing an embarrassingly enormous pile of cash...
...agreed would not be made for ten years. Now the ten years are up and Gosch plans to start shooting next year. "This man was No. 1, the kingpin, probably one of the most complex personalities that ever lived," he says. "He designed the rackets. He put together a modus operand! that would have stood the president of General Motors in good stead. But he had no interest in legitimate business...
...PEACE WITH INDIA. We do not want eternal enmity with India. We have never wanted it. We want a modus vivendi built on justice and equity. Vindication of national honor does not mean chauvinism but acceptance of the 1947 arrangement agreed upon by India and Pakistan and acknowledged by the world. All we seek is for that rationale of live and let live to come to fruition in the interests of the people of both countries...
...cold warrior because of his long service to NATO, he has stressed the importance of détente. "The Soviet Union views détente as a permanent struggle short of war," he said earlier this year. "The allies must press for their own kind of détente-modus vivendi in Berlin and Germany, the reduction of armed confrontation in Central Europe, economic cooperation, and the freer movement of people and ideas...
...such remaining Arab monarchs as Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal have any say, Habash will not be building anything. The Saudi King is anxious to bring Hussein and the relatively moderate Al-Fatah guerrillas together to negotiate a modus vivendi that will allow the fedayeen to continue their hit-and-run attacks on Israel. The P.F.L.P., however, will be pointedly excluded from any such parley. "We do not care for the Reds of the Popular Front," said a Saudi leader last week...