Word: offie
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suspicious of the Creditanstalt's activities, U.S. High Commissioner Walter Donnelly (now Ambassador to Bonn), made a point of snubbing Joham, excluded him when he invited Austrians to meet Secretary of State Acheson in Vienna recently, and pressed unsuccessfully for his removal from the bank. But Austrian offi cials did hire an American auditing firm, at $500 a day, for a year-long look at the books. They soon found a foreign-currency employee who admitted engaging in illegal currency deals with people in Switzerland. He implicated others...
Chichi Remón, boss of the National Police, Panama's only armed force, does not like revolutions; he likes to keep the country quiet, so that he, his cops and his business friends can live in peace. But President Arnulfo Arias, whom Chichi restored to offi'ce 18 months ago, was not a man to let well enough alone. He built up his own secret police to cow the opposition; he made enemies by voraciously reaching for power and property...