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the ARE. Banbi agreed to provide letters to Amoco to prove the
point.
Banbi indicated that he was relying on A. Radwan for help on
the details of making the change to taking a deduction in a
retroactive manner and met with Banbi after the Amoco
representatives had left.
On May 13, 1992, A. Radwan informed Pitman that Banbi had
instructed him to work out the change of EGPC's tax credit.
A. Radwan told Pitman that EGPC would do its best. Pitman viewed
this as a sign that A. Radwan would not give up the credit so
easily.
Amoco representatives met with A. Radwan on May 14, 1992,
where they made a point of emphasizing that Banbi had given the
go-ahead to work out the change to a deduction retroactively.
A. Radwan raised several obstacles to Amoco's suggestion that a
retroactive change of EGPC's tax credit would be relatively easy
to accomplish. It appeared that A. Radwan was trying to create
as many obstacles as possible to the suggestion that the
retroactive change was relatively easy to accomplish. A. Radwan
described Amoco's request for a retroactive change as a "new
request". A. Radwan reminded Amoco that it had previously
requested EGPC's help to show only two points: (1) That EGPC is
part of the Egyptian Government, and (2) that EGPC does not
receive a subsidy from the Government. When Lenahan asked
A. Radwan point blank whether he agreed with the ruling of the
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