Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan can be decisive: I remember speaking with Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, just after the February decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. Essentially there had been a conflict between State and Defense-Defense had wanted to get out of Lebanon even before the October massacre, while State kept insisting our presence was necessary. While preparing to watch Lauren Bacall perform in Woman of the Year Sunday afternoon, Feb. 5, Weinberger had been summoned to an immediate meeting of the National Security Council at the White House. The Republican politicians had long wanted out of Lebanon ("The forget period...
...State for African Affairs, met with South Africa's Foreign Minister Roelof F. ("Pik") Botha in the Cape Verde Islands. Crocker reportedly relayed an offer from Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos to cut substantially the number of Cuban troops in Angola if South Africa agrees to withdraw its remaining forces from the country and to comply with U.N. Security Council Resolution 435, which is designed to achieve Namibia's independence...
...must be able to count on one thing: converting its seamy gains into money that is easier to use than the stacks of $50s or $100s in which payoffs are often made. By a process known as laundering, criminals deposit money in American or foreign banks, then withdraw it and invest it in construction projects, real estate or corporations. There is a lot to launder. The underworld's haul is estimated at no less than $ 170 billion annually from drug trafficking, prostitution and illegal gambling. Last week a report by the President's Commission on Organized Crime presented...
...page report, the commission painted a grim picture of artful operators who slip by current provisions of the federal Bank Secrecy Act. They pour huge amounts of cash into banks almost with blithe abandon, then withdraw it practically at will. The present law, passed in 1970, calls for a bank to notify federal authorities whenever a deposit exceeds $10,000. The law, though, has often been ineffective, in part because of wrist-slapping fines of only $1,000 against banks that fail to report the large deposits...
About a quarter of the state's representative districts, including Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown and Brookline, will be vote on a proposition to sense military aid to EI Salvador, Honduras, and Guatamala and to withdraw support from the Nicaraguan "centers...