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...other is AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Greek-American fraternal order, which has 400 chapters and about 50,000 members, as well as some 700 chapters of auxiliary organizations for women, boys and girls. AHEPA headquarters raised $165,000 to run newspaper-ad campaigns and to solicit letters; it sent delegations to Ford, Kissinger and Under Secretary of State Joseph Sisco...
...operation. It would get all of the $3 billion or so in state government deposits now scattered among commercial banks, making it immediately one of the 25 biggest banks in the country. It would be permitted to underwrite municipal bonds, invest in job-producing industries, manage trust portfolios, and solicit deposits from companies and individuals. The bank could open branches anywhere in the state; private banks will not be allowed that privilege until January...
...height. Skeptical of Thieu's ability to govern and frightened by the country's runaway inflation, U.S. multinational corporations have never been willing to risk large amounts of capital in Viet Nam-even though the Saigon government set up the Industrial Development Bank to solicit foreign investment and announced grandiose plans to erect industrial parks, hotels with convention centers and even a Vietnamese Disneyland...
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL (UJA). Founded in 1939, it is probably the most successful nongovernmental money-raising organization in the world. Thousands of volunteers annually help it solicit donations for humanitarian aid to Israel from other Jewish groups, local federations and individuals. Partly in response to the Yom Kippur War, the UJA raised $828 million in cash and pledges in 1973 and $897 million last year...
...assessment of Page. My article simply said that he receives liquor at Christmas from people for whom he has obtained coveted tickets. I was not trying to imply that there was a quid pro quo at work; if anything, the passage implied the opposite, that Page does not solicit or expect the gifts, because, as the article noted, he does not drink. --Scott Kaufer