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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 18, 1977
Japan to Hit Dollar Inflow |
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Japan yesterday adopted emergency measures to reduce inflows of speculative dollars from foreigners in an attempt to brake the yen's sharp rise against the U.S. dollar.The decision came after the American currency plunged to another post-World War II record low of 244.15 yen, with selling pressure expected to continue pushing the dollar down. Wednesday's close was 245.425 yen.Effective next Monday, sales of short-term Japanese government securities to...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 13, 1977
Gross foreign currency transactions by 44 partici |
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Gross foreign currency transactions by 44 participants in the U.S. foreign exchange market during April totaled 406.4 billion or more than $5 billion each business day, a special survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed.More than one-fourth of the trading in spot outright forward and 'swap' contract was in West German marks, the bank said.In April, 55 per cent of all exchange trading reported was in spot contracts generally for delivery in two...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 1, 1977
The Greek Coup: A Case of CIA Intervention? No, Says Our Man in Athens |
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TEN YEARS have passed since the Greek colonels staged their coup. And the questions of just how a superpower identifies and pursues its national interests in the affairs of a smaller allied country remain with us. Since the coup embodied many of the dilemmas over the role of U.S. intervention, active or passive, it is an experience worth re-examining with the perspective of time.Shortly after I was ordered to Greece as CIA station chief in 1962, a senior American foreign service officer...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 24, 1977
IS THIS THE END OF THE WORLD'S GOLDEN AGE |
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IS IS NO easier for a civilization to accept the facts of its aging than for a man or woman to do so for themselves.History is littered with the corpses of societies that failed to read the true portents of their threshold moment - that point at which the bell curve of exponential growth, prosperity and rising life expectancies began to turn downward toward decline.Despite the autopsies conducted by 20th Century minds ranging from Oswald Spengler to Lewis Mumford, many people continue to...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 11, 1977
Israel yesterday liberalized its stringent foreig |
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Israel yesterday liberalized its stringent foreign currency regulations to enable local resident for the first time to maintain bank accounts with money received from abroad.The regulations permit Israelis to keep one-third of all foreign currency they have. The rest has to be converted to Israeli currency.Till now, Israelis other than authorized exporters, had to sell foreign currency they possessed to the Ministry. That rule caused former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to lose his...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 20, 1977
Japan Hurt By Rivals In Textiles |
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Humbled and crippled by foreign competition, Japan's once all-conquering textile industry is in headlong retreat. Huge losses and mounting stockpiles of unsold goods have forced hundreds of firms across the country into factory closures, desperate and frequently unsuccesful flings in alternate ventures and finally bankruptcy.The future is bleak. Southeast Asian textile makers - many equipped with modern Japanese-made plants - are capturing traditional export markets and are...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 21, 1977
Six European banks scheduled to sign a contract s |
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Six European banks scheduled to sign a contract shortly to loan $100 million to the Korea Exchange Bank, the state-run bank said yesterday.It said the syndicate will be led by Deutsche Bank and includes Britain's Samuel Montagu and Co., French, Belgian and Dutch banks. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 6, 1977
The dollar dropped by more than 21 yen yesterday |
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The dollar dropped by more than 21 yen yesterday to close at 272.80 yen in hectic trading that saw the Bank of Japan intervene to buy $100 million in support of the U.S. currency.Despite the bank intervention, the yen rose to its highest level in four years, apparently from pressure by speculators who anticipate a further rise in the Japanese currency.The dollar for overnight delivery came under heavy selling pressure after closing at 293.975 yen Monday evening. Traders said there was...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 19, 1977
Begin's West Bank Plan 'Unacceptable,' PLO Says |
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Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin's proposals for autonomy on the West Bank "are unacceptable" to the Palestin Liberation Organization and should be even to "quislings" and "most Arab governments," PLO sources said today.Commenting on Begin's news conference pronouncements in the United States, the sources also said "they should be unacceptable to (Egyptian President Anwar) Sadat...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 14, 1977
Brazil will have a balance of payments commercial |
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Brazil will have a balance of payments commercial surplus of $1 billion to $2 billion this year, primarily due to rising coffee prices.The newspaper Estado Do Sao Paulo yesteray cited sources at the Bank of Brazil as predicting that the balance could reach $2 billion if agriculture exports - especially coffee, soybeans and cocoa - continue to reap high prices in the international market.Brazil's commercial deficit in 1976, mainly due to increases in the price of imported... |
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