Word: banker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...larger stake in the aprés-De Gaulle era than Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou, 56, the onetime professor of literature and investment banker whom De Gaulle thrust untutored into French politics as his premier in 1962. The only man in his Cabinet that the general deigns to call by his first name (everyone else, both friend and foe, refers to the premier as "Pompon"), the bushy-browed Pompidou has long been De Gaulle's unspoken choice to succeed him. De Gaulle would never, of course, detract from his own image as France's absolute ruler by openly...
...swished up," Cross remembers, with the banker driving, and another man in the front seat "hiding, with his head between his knees." Cross jumped into the back seat, and the car dodged through the back streets. He studied the back of the head of the person hiding in front of him. They drove past a street light. His fear vanished. "Kondo!" he shouted in Arabic. "Why are you taking me by so circuitous a route...
...wouldn't even do it for his friend until Cross had properly identified himself. When nothing in his wallet proved his identity to the banker's satisfaction, Cross led him to a library and pulled off the shelf one of his books on the Old Testament, displaying his own picture on the jacket. That was enough for the banker: Cross was indeed qualified to authenticate Biblical material and was certainly the man sent to handle the purchase of the scrolls...
...banker told Cross to wait, by himself, on a street corner in Old Beirut that night. Ignoring his disappointment at having to miss Beirut night life, Cross waited in the narrow streets of the old city. He suspected that the people he was meeting thought he had enough money with him to buy their scrolls on the spot and didn't quite know what they were planning to do with...
Cross knew Kondo, for the Jordanian had served as middleman between him and the Bedouin in previus scroll sales. He was not quite honest, but at least not dangerous. The route became less "circuitous," the car halted at the banker's mansion, and Cross awaited the scrolls which he had traveled over 6000 miles to authenticate...