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...March 31, Lewellyn withdrew $500,000 in $100 bills from the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, and vanished from sight. He had parked the Jeep at the Des Moines municipal airport. On the front seat he left two books: the Bible and the autobiography of a reformed check forger entitled Catch...
...Israel staved off the Arab threat but Egypt refused to negotiate a cease-fire. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion dispatched his army into the Sinai in December as part of an effort to achieve leverage for a reconciliation Adhering to a United Nations security council resolution. Ben-Gurion withdrew from the Sinai in search of peace despite his country's inroads toward the Suez Canal. Then and only then did Egypt sign a cease-fire...
...controversy he would stir up. But at Fortas confirmation hearings, senators charged that Fortas--a presidential adviser who LBJ had appointed an Associate Justice in 1965--had continued to council Johnson on political matters while sitting on the Court. With his nomination hopelessly stalled in the Senate Fortas withdrew his name from consideration in early October. Within a year, he had resigned from the Court entirely, pressured out by those who accused him of violating the nation's cherished separation-of-powers principle...
...billion, almost double the amount of the previous quarter. That borrowing was still not enough, says the bank, to keep up with OPEC's internal spending demands as it pursued vast new construction projects and other modernization programs. So in the third quarter of 1981 OPEC countries withdrew a total of $700 million from their Western bank accounts. In the same quarter of 1980, they had deposited $10.9 billion in those accounts...
...spirit, but not precisely accurate in each and every detail." The elder Horman, who has spent the past eight years building up his case, brought suit against eleven Government officials in 1977, claiming, among other things, negligence and wrongful death. Most counts were dismissed on procedural grounds. Horman withdrew the rest since he was unable to get some classified documents that he believed would be conclusive. "They're desperate," he says. "If the real story ever comes out, its implications would be as serious as Watergate...