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Should American Liberals Rediscover Channing?-- Andrew De'banco and Jack Mendelsohn; Cambridge Forum, 3 Church...
...full members. So were such military figures as Admiral Giovanni Torrisi, the Defense Chief of Staff; General Giulio Grassini, chief of the Interior Ministry's secret intelligence service; and General Giuseppe Santovito, head of the Military Information and Security Service. Financiers included a top official of the Banco di Roma, Italy's third largest bank, and a former director-general of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, the country's largest...
...began as a taut suspense drama. A band of hooded, heavily armed terrorists invaded the ground-floor offices of Barcelona's Banco Central, taking some 200 hostages and demanding the release of four army and Civil Guard officers who were under arrest for their roles in last February's attempted military coup. They threatened to kill the hostages and blow up the bank if their demands were not met. After a 37-hour siege, crack squads of special police moved in to capture the terrorists and free the hostages...
Despite Brazil's perilous economic state, few international bankers expect that its funds will be cut off. Most banks are awash in deposits and looking for places to make safe investments. Says Vivian Morgan-Mendez, an economist at Sào Paulo's Banco de Boston: "What other country looks better as a long-run proposition?" The answer, of course, is that many do. But Brazil has achieved that most enviable role of a debtor: it is so far in hock to so many banks that its creditors cannot allow it to go broke...
...bank decided that discretion was the better part of valor. After a frightened teller in another New York City bank was killed last week, apparently for failing to act fast enough, Manhattan's Banco de Ponce posted a sign near the tellers' booths: "Attention would-be bank robbers. This is a Spanish-speaking bank. If you intend to rob us, please be patient for we might need an interpreter. Thank you, the Management...