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...greatest bank robbery ever," fumed Mordechai Virshubski, a member of Israel's Knesset. He and many of his countrymen were outraged at the news that Ernest Japhet, the former chairman of Bank Leumi (1985 assets: $22 billion), had negotiated for himself $5 million in severance pay and a $360,000 annual pension. Protesters stormed the bank's Tel Aviv headquarters. A prime reason for the anger was that Japhet had been forced to step down last year when a government commission criticized his role in the 1983 crash of the value of Israeli bank stocks. As public indignation mounted last...
...Number of Democratic candidates on the 1984 New Hampshire primary ballot: Eight--Gary Hart, Walter Mondale, John Glenn, Ernest Hollings, Alan Cranston, Reuben Askew, and George McGovern...
Johnson raced toward the end zone, beating cornerback Ernest Gibson and hauling in Elway's long heave at the goal-line for a 20-17 lead...
...York Businessman Roy Furmark, a consultant to Saudi Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, described a financial mystery in an interview with TIME. His story: Khashoggi lined up $25 million in bridge financing for U.S. sales of arms to Iran this year. Toronto Investors Donald Fraser and Ernest Miller, together with some Middle Eastern and European investors, routed the $25 million via Khashoggi into the Swiss account of Lake Resources, Inc. -- $10 million in February and $15 million in May. Why Lake Resources? Says Furmark: "Mr. Khashoggi said Mr. Nir of the Israeli government told him that Lake Resources was the account...
Fred Grandy '70 of Iowa, Amory Houghton Jr. '50 of New York, Thomas C. Ballenger of North Carolina, Frederick S. Upton of Michigan, and Ernest L. Konnyu of California chose to rub elbows with the young politicos instead of accepting other invitations...