Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West German bankers have been particularly angry. Morgan Guaranty, one of Chase's U.S. partners in the defaulted $500 million loan, went into a German court and attached Iran's 25% investment in two big German companies, Friedrich Krupp and Deutsche Babcock. Last Tuesday, a day after a terrorist bomb exploded outside the bank's Frankfurt office, Morgan obtained a second court lien on the same assets to cover yet a further Iranian debt. The German bankers had thought they would have first call on these assets if Iran failed to pay some of its German loans...
...recalled the first time she and Dorothy were invited to the presidential mansion. It was for a special showing of their movie, Orphans of the Storm, and "my sister had a knot in her stomach from the excitement. But since both we and the President were from Ohio, everything went just fine." The President was Warren Harding, the year...
...Moon returned from self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, tried to pull himself together. Some days he would play with his old brilliance. Other days he couldn't play at all. "We knew what was coming," Daltrey says, "but we were really shocked when it happened." Moon went out one night to a party, enjoyed himself in moderation, came back, swallowed an estimated 30 Heminevirins, and died. "The worst thing is that none of us were there when he died," says Entwistle. "We must have saved his life 30 times in the past, picking him up when he was unconscious...
...tough ticket. All 18,348 of them were gone 90 minutes after they went on sale in late September at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum. The Who had not played the area since 1975. It was an event...
Lieut. Dale Menkhaus, detailed to head a squad of 25 Cincinnati police on crowd-control assignment, sensed danger. He went looking for someone to open the doors. He found one of the promoters, Cal Levy, who told him this was not possible. The musicians had not completed their rehearsal inside the hall, and not enough ticket takers had arrived...