Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried" to determine the "crimes" of multinational corporations. The implication was that if found guilty, Samuelson would be executed. The guerrillas added that Exxon, Esso's U.S. parent company, owed $10 million in "back taxes," payable to E.R.P. Last week Esso was still negotiating with the guerrillas on payment of the ransom, believed to be the largest ever demanded in Argentina...
Villagers prevailed upon construction workers to stop work until the dragon had been propitiated. Taoist priests were brought in to exorcise the demon. A member of the Man family predicted a "bloodbath" if government officials did not meet the village's demands. These included payment of thousands of dollars in expenses for exorcism and for hospitalization of stricken members of the Man family. For good measure, villagers mixed in a shakedown with their superstitions and demanded that the government construct a new drainage system and sidewalks for the village...
...coincidence or not, a Hughes lieutenant by then had already made one of the celebrated $50,000 cash "contributions" that were held for Republican campaign funds by Nixon's pal Bebe Rebozo; the second $50,000 payment was delivered the following July. Rebozo claims that he held the money for three years and eventually returned the same bills to Hughes representatives. That story, as well as the Air West deal and other legal matters involving Hughes, is under investigation by the Senate Watergate committee...
...with the TriStar flying and getting high ratings from airline executives-until the fuel shortage hit. Faced with sharp curtailments in jet-fuel supplies, airlines have canceled hundreds of flights and delayed orders for aircraft. Lockheed had expected to collect around $ 150 million in cash in 1974, as final payment on deliveries of nine TriStars to Eastern Air Lines; now the deliveries, and payments, have been postponed until 1975 and 1976. Pacific Southwest Airlines is taking a four-month delay on two more TriStars (price: $20 million each). On top of that, Japan's All Nippon Airways, on orders...
...international spending spree. This year it contracted for about $ 1 billion of industrial goods including coal mining equipment from Great Britain, fertilizer and thermal power plants from Japan and a petrochemical complex from France. In January, the government disclosed that the Chinese were willing to seek "deferred payment arrangements"-a euphemism for foreign credits-to pay for still more technology. This departure from China's previous policy, buying only what it could pay for in cash, indicates a desire for even greater imports...