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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 30, 1977
Blumenthal Pessimistic On Deficit |
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Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal told a press conference yesterday that "there is little chance" that the U.S. trade deficit in 1978 can be reduced in any significant way from the $25 to $30 billion range he forecast earlier this week for 1977.That means that the current account deficit - which reflects offsetting U.S. earnings on investments abroad - again will run about $16 to $20 billion, he said.A Morgan Guaranty Bank analysis published this week...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 10, 1977
The Ravel Revival |
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The various observances of the centenary of the birth of Maurice Ravel two years ago left us several permanent benefactions. One is Arbie Orenstein's biographical study of the composer and his music ("Ravel: Man and Musician," Columbia University Press), a comprehensive work with special reference value. Another is the late Jean Martinon's Ravel cycle for Angel, which includes the first recording of the Sheherazade Overture, Ravel's...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 25, 1977
Hussein Expected To Give Carter Grim Mideast View |
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Jordan's King Hussein wil bring to Washington Monday a different, more pessimistic view on the chances for a quick Middle East peace settlement than President Carter heard earlier this month from Egypt's President Anwar Sadat.While Sadat has consistently pushed 1977 as the year for peace in the Middle East - "this golden opportunity," he told Carter 10 days ago - King Hussein believes Israeli intran-daily papers - all closely controlled by...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 13, 1977
Fed Chairman Warns Financial System Is 'Especially Vulnerable' |
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Federal Reserve Board chairman Arthur F. Burns warned yesterday that the international financial system is seriously overextended and "especially vulnerable" to collapse if there were another serious recession.He said the "troubled circumstances that now exist" cannot be improved unless there is "broad agreement" among nations "that parochial concerns will be subordinated to the vital objective of working...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 24, 1977
U.S. Helped Vorster Get Loans From IMF |
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Despite its official criticism of South Africa's racial policies, the United States has helped Prime Minister John Vorster obtain $463 million from the International Monetary Fund to combat his country's economic problems.Rooted in that action is a case study of the contradictory choices confronting U.S. officials who must work out a design for furthering U.S. interests and policy objectives on a global basis.Specifically, U.S. support of South Africa in the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 23, 1977
U.S. Is Pressing New Effort to Aid Caribbean Economy |
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As part of its new emphasis on our Caribbean "back yard," the Carter administration is trying to provide more jobs, investment and development to that economically troubled region through an alliance of rich and poor nations.Quietly during the past several weeks, U.S. policy planners have taken the initiative in outlining an economic coordinating mechanism tentatively known as "the Caribbean consultative group."Its purpose: to bring...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 28, 1977
WHEN GEROGE V. HIGGINS is good, he is very, very |
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WHEN GEROGE V. HIGGINS is good, he is very, very good. A former federal prosecutor now practicing law in Boston, Higgins is a fellow in his thirties whose earlier novels - The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972), The Digger's Game (1973), Cogan's Trade (1974) and The Judgment of Deke Hunt (1976) - explored the fragile and treacherous environment of small-time crooks and their pursuers and defenders on both sides of the law. Each set in Boston, the stories were the work of a...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 11, 1977
Ancient Bedouin Ways Are Crumbling |
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Israeli-Occupied Sinai-In the interior of the southern Sinai, the bleached desert sand gives way to red granite mountains rising up to seven and eight thousand feet.It is a land full of enormous silence borken only by the wind, where multi-colored layers of rock rise up steep canyon or "wadi" wallas, and great stones lie scattered about, shaped and polished by wind and a million winter rains.ads. It is crisscrossed, though, by Bedouin paths where desert tribes have...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 14, 1977
Chairman for 1st Federal |
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First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Alexandria has elected John T. Martyn, Jr. chairman of the board. Martyn has been a board member since 1943.The new chairman, who has been active in Alexandria civic and community affairs for many years, is a partner in the real estate and insurance firm of Graham & Ogden, with which he has been associated since 1933.Martyn, who also sits on the board of First Virginia Bankshares Corp., was a founding member of Mt. Vernon Bank...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 20, 1977
PLAYING WITH FEAR |
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Though he is now a in wheelchair, John Allen still hangs out on Washington streetcorners. He grew up on this city's streets, doing what he felt he had to do to survive - lying, cheating, stealing, hustling and committing various acts of violence - before a shoot-out with police left him permanently crippled. His book, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, is the story of his life. Edited by Dianne Hall Kelly and Philip Heymann, who was once Allen's lawyer, it presents street...
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