Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lesser problems that had to be worked out included Egypt's demand for compensation for oil that Israel has pumped from the Gulf of Suez during the eleven years of Israeli occupation, and the Israeli demand for payment for its investment in roads, airfields and settlements in the Sinai during the same period...
CORPORATIONS. To them, selling the dollar is mere prudence. A Japanese company may book an order to deliver $1 million worth of steel to the U.S., with payment due in 30 days. Rather than wait to receive the dollars, which by then might be worth fewer yen, the company quite probably will immediately sell $1 million for as many yen as it can get, with the dol lars to be delivered in 30 days. U.S.-based multinationals do essentially the same thing. Hercules Inc., a major chemical company, in 1971 negotiated a five-year loan in Swiss francs, on terms...
...other high-ranking embassy officials and their families -about half the diplomatic community in the U.S. But they will be required to carry liability insurance, so plaintiffs can at least sue insurance companies, and the companies can no longer use their clients' immunity to avoid payment of claims. Other embassy staffers will continue to have immunity only when on embassy business...
...state's population, blacks boast eight seats. There are no chicanos on the Los Angeles city council or the Los Angeles County board of supervisors. The sole California Mexican-American representative in Congress is Los Angeles Democrat Roybal. (Roybal has admitted that he "probably" pocketed a $1,000 payment from South Korean Wheeler-Dealer Tongsun Park. The House ethics committee has officially censured Roybal for that involvement...
...foreign policy toward Allende's Chile included with-drawal of all foreign aid except to the military, wholesale cuts in World Bank, Export-Import Bank, and private sector bank loans and credits to Chile, payment of millions of CIA dollars to finance anti-Allende demonstrations and mouth-pieces such as El Mercurio, and direct CIA encouragement for the coup. U.S. multinational corporations such as ITI also funded anti-Allende subversion, although ITT executives have avoided jail because the U.S. government says too many "national security secrets" would come out in a trial...