Word: panama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate is a closed and comfortable world, a place even Senators proudly call the most exclusive club in Washington. Small wonder that the very idea of allowing television cameras into their august chamber sparked the kind of weighty deliberation and heated debate normally associated with issues like the Panama Canal treaties...
...used his Bahamas connection again and again. He called Meier collect from public pay phones during his lunch hour, using the alias "Mr. Diamond." The owners of his stocks were listed as International Gold Inc. and Diamond Holdings S.A., which were dummy corporations that Levine had set up in Panama. When he needed to confer with Meier in person, he flew to the Bahamas under a fictitious name, using plane tickets that he purchased with cash. So as not to arouse the suspicion of his wife, he never mentioned his out-of-town trips and avoided spending the night...
...Bernstein testimony, accompanied by a chart, was a major boost to the effort to trace ownership through the layers of dummy companies. Explaining a typical deal, Joseph Bernstein told how he helped create a holding company in the Netherlands Antilles that was itself held by three firms in Panama, the stock of which had no identified owner...
...thought that the cooperative had died when the Peace Corps quit Panama in 1971. Instead, it had blossomed into a cottage industry that brings substantial cash into an economy formerly based on coconuts. Today, 1,365 women on 17 islands turn out thousands of dollars' worth of mola products each year, from pillows and purses to the traditional squares. The co-op runs a store in Panama City that sells wholesale to tourist shops in town and even exports to the U.S. Like everything else in the co-op, the store is run by Kuna women only...
...cooperative to manage the land and water resources of their nearly autonomous homeland. Their efforts have been impressive enough to win international support, including a $225,000 grant . from the MacArthur Foundation. "The Indians have made it into the 20th century intact," says Ann Wenzel, an American friend in Panama. "On the way they have learned to live in contact with the Western world without succumbing...