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...Russians, Vladivostok was the most fortuitous acquisition in the Far East; for the Chinese, it was the most galling loss. The port is situated on Golden Horn Bay, which opens onto the Sea of Japan; it was linked to Moscow by the Trans-Siberian Railway...
Smith cited the "gift" of $550,000 to William Ronan when Ronan was chairman of the New York Port Authority as a possible "conflict of interest and attempt to unduly influence public employees." Rockefeller was then governor of New York...
...Kissinger and other recipients, such as William J. Ronan [formerly chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, now chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey], are also public officials...
...express interest in investing. As a result of Mobutu's visit to Peking last year, Kinshasa now swarms with Chinese doctors and agricultural technicians. The Japanese have been asked to help build Zaire's first transnational railroad. The French and Belgians are planning a new deepwater port at Banana, Zaire's only direct sea outlet on its short 23-mile Atlantic coastline...
Both the Transit Authority and the Port Authority, which operates more than 20 bridges, tunnels, airports and freight terminals, do multimillion-dollar business with New York banks, including Chase Manhattan, headed by David Rockefeller. Asked what, if anything, he did in return for the gift, Ronan jauntily told reporters: "I said thank...