Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MONDAY. Edgar Bronfman left his estate by helicopter to assemble the huge amount of cash in Manhattan. A tape recording arrived by mail at his Park Avenue apartment. It contained Sam's voice, assuring his father that he was well but pleading for prompt payment of the ransom. Sam said he wanted to come home...
...conman with expensive tastes, has squandered thousands of Citrine's dollars given to start an intellectual quarterly. In addition, Citrine's silver-gray Mercedes has been vandalized by a petty hood, a Mafia buffo character named Ronald Cantabile, to whom Citrine unwittingly gave a bad check in payment for a minor gambling debt...
...three years or $1,000. Also, no one can put anything in a mailbox that doesn't bear postage, and no one other than the owner, his agent or the letter carrier can take anything out. The person who puts mailable material into mailboxes himself to avoid payment of postage faces a maximum fine of $300 per offense. The Postal Service claims that otherwise mailboxes might become overstuffed and the security of the mail weakened...
More generally, the Government has strong political and balance of payment reasons to encourage sales abroad by U.S. arms and aerospace manufacturers, and sometimes has not hesitated to promote them. The Government interest does not, of course, extend to condonement of bribery. But it probably precludes any effective measures to stamp it out, like passage of a law making the payment of foreign bribes a crime...
...been written, but they take Nixon only up to 1946. Rather than start with Watergate or his presidency, Nixon intends "to give us Whittier and Mom and Dad all over again," says this source. Nixon has a strong incentive to plunge on: he has received a $350,000 advance payment so far from his publisher (Warner Paperback Library in New York) and will qualify for another such advance when he completes 200 pages. Nixon's agent, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, says the total promised advance is $2.5 million...