Word: hirschfeld
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to conversations recorded by Chastain and an associate, Virginia Lawyer Richard Hirschfeld, Marcos planned to invade the Philippines with arms obtained on credit backed by $500 million in Swiss bank accounts and 1,000 tons of gold bullion, worth $14 billion, hidden in various locations in the Philippines. According to Marcos' plan, he was to go first to Tonga, an independent South Pacific island where he supposedly had allies. From there, he was to land by boat in his home province of Ilocos Norte, where he expected to be greeted by supporters and swept back into power...
...bizarre revelations were made by an equally unlikely pair. Lawyer Hirschfeld has had intermittent legal skirmishes with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Chastain has been vaguely described as a business associate of Hirschfeld's. Last fall, in his search for financial backing, Marcos apparently sought out Hirschfeld because of the attorney's relationship with Mohammed al-Fassi, a client and wealthy Saudi businessman. Marcos wanted al-Fassi to loan him $18 million for weapons purchases. The loan would be secured by Marcos' hidden gold and a lien on his Swiss bank account...
Phoenix Attorney Robert Hirschfeld bitterly argued that charges of sexual and emotional abuse are routinely manufactured by "female social workers who have a history of being molested themselves, lawyers who coach women to make false accusations, and vindictive, vicious mothers who coach and work on their children." One of the stories he told the conventioners was about a girl, 16, who went to a school official and said her father had molested her. A criminal proceeding costing the father $10,000 ended in a mistrial. When the father learned that the girl had kept a diary, he got legal access...
...holding the can. It is attention grabbing, but not, I believe, for the reasons you proposed in your article. Why, then, is it so appealing to a college age audience? Sex, my friend, sex. The women figures, hidden in the picture like "Nina"s in a Hirschfeld drawing, are not intended to stimulate your subconscious; they appear to remind you of that freshman Psychology course you took in which you were told about the strategy of subliminal advertising. They are there to prolong the amount of time you spend looking in the vicinity of the name of their product...
...Hirschfeld contended he had a contract with Holmes that gave him first refusal on a Holmes-Coetzee fight...