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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 24, 1977
Foreign Aid Bill, Opposed By Carter, Passes House |
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The House yesterday passed a badly battered $6.7 billion foreign aid appropriations bill 208 to 174, which President Carter said "severely restricts" his ability to "promote American interests around the world."Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell, said the President did not say anything about vetoing the bill, but added that Carter could not have expressed his objections "in stronger terms."The House...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 26, 1977
A Man For All Roles |
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A group in Italy has named President Anwar Sadat of Egypt one of the world's 10 best-dressed men. The other day, after one of Sadat's innumerable press conferences about affairs of state in the Middle East, a CBS reporter asked if he was pleased or embarrassed to be on that list.Sadat paused to puff at his pipe."Well," he said, "I'm really very proud because I'm a farmer. Whenever there is a farmer who...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 13, 1977
Swiss Bank Scandal |
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Swiss authorities closed a private Geneva investment house yesterday and issued warrants for the arrest of its president and vice president. They said the pair fled the country with between $8.3 and $20.7 million in clients' funds.Officials closed the Hervel private investment firm and were seeking President Serve Harvel and his son, Theodore, who served as vice president. Both are French nationals. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 6, 1977
House Foreign Aid Curbs Are Rejected by Senate |
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The Senate last night junked a series of controversial House-passed restrictions on foreign aid which President Carter strongly opposed.By a 47 to 29 vote followed by two voice votes, it stripped from the $6.9 billion foreign-aid money bill a ban on loans by international development banks to seven specified countries.The House had said none of the funds could go to the seven countries either as direct aid or as loans from the World Bank, Asian Development Fund, International...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 30, 1977
Mr. Lance as Test Case |
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THE LANCE AFFAIR is now turning into the Chinese water torture. Each new drop of information about those Georgia banks adds to the administration's embarrassment. But none of them is, by itself, sufficiently dire or shocking to force Bert Lance immediately out of his job as budget director.That has made the press coverage a major element in the case.Half an inch under the formal defense of Mr. Lance there runs a strong and bitter resentment of news reporting that the White...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 23, 1977
Carter Stresses Social Justice in Foreign Policy |
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President Carter called today for a broadening of American foreign policy beyond narrow alliances rooted in anti-communism to embrace the thirst for social justice in "a politically awakening world."Speaking at the 132d commencement exercises at the University of Notre Dame, the President also issued a warning to Israel that American policy in the Middle East will not change with a change in the Isreali government. The United States, he said, expects the new Israeli...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 6, 1977
IB Awaits Financial Center Role International Bank Ready for Wider Role |
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For George Hamden Olmsted, at age 77, the idea that people should quit their work at age 65 is nonsense."There's no challenge in it," says the crusty, retired Army major general.Unlike many older people who have no choice, however, Olmsted has a significant role in deciding his own future.Olmsted is a military man by training, having graduated from West Point in 1922 as class president when Douglas MacArthur was academy superintendent. Olmsted...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 13, 1977
Britain Weighs Good and Bad Economic News |
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Long accustomed to bad economic news, Britons learned today that their inflation rate is falling, their trade gap narrowing and interest rates dropping.But industrial production - down to scarcely above the 1970 level-provided a gloomy counterpoint to the other government figures. And the stock market declined as the international trade figures fell short of financial world hopes."It looks as though we are over the worst," Employment Minister Harold Walker said... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 25, 1977
Opposition Seen Building To McKinney Nomination |
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Robert H. McKinney, nominated by President Carter to ahead the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, is likely to face conflict-of-interest charges stemming from his chairmanship of an Indianapolis savings and loan association.His nomination, which was announced Thursday, has also been opposed by civil rights and consumer groups who charge that First Federal Savings and Loan of Indianapolis has shunned lending to the inner city.McKinney and the savings and loan association are being... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 8, 1977
William Gaud, Advocate of 'Green Revolution' at AID, Dies |
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William S. Gaud, a former administrator of the Agency for International Development who emphasized food production and population control, died Monday of cancer at the Washington Home for Incurables. He was 70.Mr. Gaud coined the term "the green revolution" to dramatize his belief that the use of new, high-yield kinds of wheat and rice could help the underdeveloped world feed itself. He was equally certain that the breakthroughs in agriculture would come to nothing... |
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