Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investigators were amazed at how far the scheme proceeded before being discovered. If the gang had settled for smaller amounts or picked accounts that were less active, the crime might have gone undetected long enough for the culprits to withdraw the money from the Viennese banks. Says an investigator connected with the case: "They came a lot closer than the banks want to acknowledge...
...pulled his country out of the alliance's integrated command structure. Spain followed a similar tack in 1982: it joined NATO but kept its forces out of the chain of joint European command based outside Brussels. Last January, Madrid went a step further by ordering the U.S. to withdraw its 72 F-16 jet fighters from Torrejon air base. Greece has raised questions about U.S. bases on its soil. Such actions, says a senior U.S. commander, "make our job of deterrence more difficult and make Congress less willing to vote funds...
...South Africa, supporters of Angola's UNITA rebels, met for the first time with officials of the Marxist-oriented Angolan government and its Cuban allies. Presided over by Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, the talks focused on a proposal by Cuba and Angola to withdraw Cuba's estimated 40,000 troops from Angola over a four-year period. In exchange, Cuba and Angola want the South Africans to remove their soldiers from Angola as well, and to abide by the U.N. resolution that would give independence to Angola's neighbor Namibia, which is occupied...
...real arguments have more to do with symbolism than logic. Adoption of the plant-closing provision would give organized labor one of its few legislative victories of recent years, and the AFL-CIO is going all out to win. It has threatened to withdraw its support of the whole bill if the plant- closing provision is stripped from it. Corporate and White House opponents fear not so much that the provision will do great damage in itself but that it will set a precedent for increasing Government regulation of business, which is anathema to Reagan's free-market philosophy. Some...
...Soviet experts believe that a fundamental or far-reaching power struggle is under way. Peter Danylow, an analyst of East-West affairs in Bonn, argues that a basic policy consensus must exist. The reason: it would otherwise be hard to imagine the Soviet leadership approving the agreement to withdraw forces from Afghanistan...