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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 16, 1977
$7.6 Billion Aid to IDA |
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The United States and 25 other countries have reached agreement on a $7.6 billion refinancing operation for the International Development Association, the World Bank's "soft-loan" affiliate. The agreement, reached in Vienna, Austria, calls for contributions by each of the IDA donor countries in specific amounts to IDA in three years starting July 1. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 28, 1977
India has received more international aid since i |
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India has received more international aid since independence in 1947 than any other developing country - a total of $28 billion, according to the annual World Bank report on that country. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 1, 1977
Kenya and Animals |
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Kenya announced two moves to preserve its dwindling wildlife - expansion of its anti-poaching unit and a crackdown on traders who sell illegally obtained animal skins and ivory.Tourism and Wildlife Minister Mathews Ogutu said the World Bank had lent the country $2.8 million to expand the anti-poaching unit. The measures follow a ban on game hunting announced earlier in May. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 27, 1977
An Upbeat Economic View |
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President Carter gave world financial leaders an upbeat assessment yesterday of U.S. economic prospects for next year, promising "vigorous and non-inflationary growth" and declaring, "I am committed to make sure that optimistic prediction comes true."In a brief address to the Joint Annual Meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which began yesterday, Carter was obviously mindful of concern over sagging worldwide economc...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 25, 1977
Insuror Staffed by Ex-Military Officers Banks on Peace Former Officers Lead Charge to Sell Insurance You don't have to be a former colonel to sell insurance for United Services Life, but it helps. |
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When nations got to war, some companies - the gun makers and airplane manufacturers, the tent weavers and bandage cutters - get rich. Now, introducing a company that banks on peace; United Services Life.This medium-sized firm based in Washington, sells life insurance exclusively to U.S. military personal, active and retired, around the world. Its profit chart looks like a seismic graph tracing the history of U.S. military involvement - rock bottom during half of the '40s,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 18, 1977
3 More Camps Planned on West Bank |
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The Israeli government announced today that three new Jewish settlements are to be established on the West Bank of the Jordan River. The move is expected to provoke a sharp reaction from the United States and the Arab world.The government of Prime Minister Menahem Begin's Likud Party emphasized that the new settlements had been approved by the previous Labor government. But the timing of the decision to go ahead now is being interpreted here as yet another signal to the Arabs...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 16, 1977
Senate Panel Removes Restrictions in Aid Bill |
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A Senate subcommittee, heeding a plea from President Carter, yesterday stripped from the $7.1 billion foreign aid funding bill a provision under which in emotional development banks could not use U.S. money to make loans to seven specified countries.The restriction had been approved by the House. It specified that none of the funds in the aid bill could be used either for direct bilateral aid by the United States or for loans by the World Bank. Asia Development Fund, International...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 6, 1977
Malaysian Crash Probe |
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Civil aviation investigators began an inquiry into the cause of the crash of a hijacked Malaysian airline in which all 100 persons board were killed.A spokesman for the airline said the pilot told the tower before the crash that the plane had been hijacked, but did not say who the hijackers were. An Official said there was no evidence to comfirm reports that the hijacking was conducted by the Japanese Red Army. Two of the foreign passengers were identified as World Bank officials from...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 17, 1977
The state-owned British National Oil Corp. made i |
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The state-owned British National Oil Corp. made its first entry into world money markets yesterday with an $525 million loan from a 12 bank consortium.Proceeds from the loan will be used to repay the company's debt to the British government and also should pay for about half of its capital expenditure over the next three years.Lord Kearton, BNOC's chairman, said repayment of the company's debt to the government would amount to "a great...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 28, 1977
CHANG, YAI-NAN |
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On Sunday, March 27, 1977, YAI-NAN CHANG, beloved wife of Y.L. Chang, formerly Executive Director and Senior Adviser of the World Bank, mother of Andrew Chang, May Wong and Joan Wong. Eight grandchildren also survive. Services will be held at Gawler's Chapel, 5130 Wisconsin Ave. at Harrison St. n.w. (parking on premises) on Monday March 28, at 1:30 P.M. Interment private. ... |
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