Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph Gozzo, president of the Bloomfield (Conn.) State Bank, was uneasy. On Nov. 8, a new customer named Arbie Evans had phoned to say that he wanted to withdraw $33,500 in cash from an account he had opened only three weeks earlier. Suspecting a swindle of some kind, Gozzo summoned the police. When Evans arrived at the bank, the cops asked him to come to the station. After four hours of fruitless questioning, they placed a poster from the FBI'S most-wanted list before him. With scarcely a wince, he admitted: "All right...
...number of major U.S. journalists' and publishers' associations have hotly denounced the declaration. Some have also urged that the U.S., which pays 25% of UNESCO's budget ($303 million this year), withdraw from the body if the declaration is adopted. In a letter to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, New York's Senator Daniel Moynihan last month called on the U.S. to "thunder our contempt for this contemptible document." In Paris, the 38-member U.S. delegation has been lobbying quietly to water down the declaration. But the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times last week editorialized against compromise...
...apartheid--South Africa's policy of separation of the races. Since his dramatic New Year's Eve escape, Woods has been vigorously performing what he calls his "political duty"--traveling the length and breadth of Britain and the U.S. speaking out against apartheid, and urging the West to withdraw its corporations from his country. He is currently a visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard. This is the first of two Crimson interviews with Woods on Western investment policies in South Africa. The second will deal specifically with Harvard's financial ties to South Africa and the Corporation's position on divestiture...
...American corporations withdraw, will the South Africans be able to take over their functions...
Sabbagh said isolationist forces in the country were attempting to withdraw Lebanon from the conflict with Zionism...