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61. Washington Post, The (DC) - October 23, 1977

Cornelius T. Richardson, Tax Attorney, Accountant
  Cornelius T. Richardson, 60, a local tax attorney and accountant, died Friday at Arlington Hospital after an apparent heart attack.He was a senior partner in the Falls Church firm of Richardson, Nickolls, Walton and Associates, a legal and accounting firm, from 1970 to the time of his death.Mr. Richardson moved to the Washington area in 1952 and worked for both the Agency for International Development, where he saw tours of duty in Uganda and Tanzania, and the World Bank from 1964 to...
62. Washington Post, The (DC) - April 12, 1977

The President's appointments today:< 8:30 a.m. -
  The President's appointments today: 8:30 a.m. - Intelligence briefing.9:30 a.m. - Economic adviser Charles Schultze.11:30 a.m. - Vice President Mondale, CIA Director Turner and security adviser Brzezinski.2 p.m. - Budget director Bert Lance.2:25 p.m. - Meeting of action regional review team.3 p.m. - World Bank President Robert McNamara.4 p.m. - Soviet Ambassador Anatolly Dobrynin....
63. Washington Post, The (DC) - July 3, 1977

R.C. Price, 66, Activist for Quaker Causes
  Reginald C. Price, 66, a civil engineer, economist and Quaker activist, died of cancer Saturday at his home in Bethesda.Mr. Price, who held engineering degrees from the University of Wisconsin, worked for state, federal and international agencies, starting with the Wisconsin State Board of Health, and including the Departments of Agriculture and Interior, the Federal Power Commission, the United Nations and the World Bank.In the 1960s, he was deputy director of policy for the...
64. Washington Post, The (DC) - December 26, 1977

Whistle Also Blows For Junior Gordon
  It's tough enough being the son of famous actor or athlete let alone being the offspring of a high-school referee.Steve Gordon, a graduate of Stuart High School and the University of Richmond, is in his second year of officiating high school games in Northern Virginia. The 25-year-old former basketball and baseball star at both schools knows he'll be called a few other surnames other than the son of Ralph Gordon."After I leave my 9-to-5 job,...
65. Washington Post, The (DC) - April 3, 1977

Foreign Bankers Settle in Chicago, Reap Big Benefits Foreign Banks Put Branches in Chicago
  Kazunao Murata was happy in his job as deputy general manager of the corporate planning department of one of Japan's largest banks. The Sanwa Bank Limited.Until he got a call one morning last year to report to a special ceremony the next day during which he and many of his colleagues were to receive formal transfers within the Osaka-based institution.Murata, like most of his peers, had no idea where they would be transferred by the bank."When my name was...
66. Washington Post, The (DC) - September 9, 1977

The F St. Club: There to Stay
  After two years of uncertainty, the F Street club at 1925 F Street will stay right where it is. This is the presitigious club where every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt had dined.The pre-Civil War off-white brick structure, owned by George Washington University, had been under consideration for removal on a flatbed truck to another site GW owns on 21st Street. It was to have been replaced by a structure for the World Bank Building.But yesterday the District of Columbia Zoning...
67. Washington Post, The (DC) - November 26, 1977

France's Candidate Likely Successor to Witteveen
  The United States has thrown its support behind Jacques de Larosiere, the leading European candidate for managing director of the International Monetary Fund - bolstering his position as frontrunner for the job.W. Michael Blumenthal, the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, has publicly endorsed de Larosiere, director of the French treasury and a close friend of French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing - the first time the Carter administration has entered the foray....
68. Washington Post, The (DC) - March 19, 1977

Rhodesian Chrome Ban Made Law
  Calling it a "central element in our African policy," President Carter yesterday signed a bill restoring the embargo on U.S. use of Rhodesian chrome.The President also proposed a $7.4 billion foreign aid package for fiscal 1978, with a slight reduction in military aid, and more money for economic assistance, especially for developing nations.Former President Ford had proposed a $6.3 billion foreign aid program.Carter had called during his campaign for the...
69. Washington Post, The (DC) - May 3, 1977

Rent Control Law Behind WRIT Deal
  Washington Real Estate Investment Trust yesterday sold one of its prime apartment house properties in the District and purchased a downtown office building in a complicated three-way exchange that may have been prompted by the city's rent control law.WRIT, a real estate trust that devotes its assets to property ownership and management, traded wtih Wiltshire South apartments at 3701 Connecticul Ave. NW. plus $970,000 in cash for an office building at 1901 Pennsylvania Ave....
70. Washington Post, The (DC) - December 9, 1977

A Jordanian West Bank: The Key to Mideast Peace
  "The meek shall inherit the West Bank" is a phrase I once used jokingly on a voice-level test for a "Meet the Press" interview with Secretary of State Cyprus Vance. Now, having toured the area again, it strikes me as not a bad guidelines.The West Bank of the Jordan River - the territories known in the Bible as Judaea and Samaria - remains the key to a peace settlement in the Middle East. That settlement can only be achieved if the territories...

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