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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 27, 1977
Mandel Contradictory |
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Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel repeatedly contradicted portions of his previous testimony today during an intense cross-examination by chief federal prosecutor Barnet D. Skolnik.Mandel changed an important date three times to conform with contradictory evidence cited by Skolnik and several times found himself disputing documentary evidence containing his own signature.At one point, Skolnik accused Mandel of lying on the witness stand about a loan he received from the Palottine Fathers...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 22, 1977
The Israeli Offer . . . |
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An excess of caution, and of thinking along lines outmoded by the events of the past month, make it seem that a chintzy Israel offer threatens peace prospects with Egypt. In fact, Prime Minister Menahen Begin is bringing relatively generous terms to President Anwar Sadat.My strong, impression, after having seen both leaders recently, is that the Israeli proposals are more far-reaching than originally intended by Begin or expected by Sadat. While an accord is not certain, it will take a... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 5, 1977
Corbin Allardice, Former Director Of Congressional Committee on AEC |
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Corbin Allardice, 57, former staff director of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and author of a book on the Atomic Energy Commission, died Sunday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinsburg, W.Va. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia.Mr. Allardice, whose home was in Alexandria, had been a patient at the hospital since 1971. He had been stricken in 1961 with a rare form of viral encephalitis that left him a quadriplegic.Although totally paralyzed, Mr....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 10, 1977
GREASING LIGHTNING |
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AMONG THE ADVERTISED scenic attractions of Patrick County, Virginia, together with the Bob White Covered Bridge near Woolwine, the R. J. Reynolds homestead near Critz and the Philpott Reservoir, is a modest cinderblock building, in Stuart, on the banks of Poorhouse Creek.The building is owned by Glen and Leonard Wood, formerly of nearby Buffalo Ridge, and though their names aren't familiar in the drawing rooms of Georgetown, you can bet they're known in the White...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 27, 1977
Orders for proof sets of 1977-dated U.S. coins wi |
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Orders for proof sets of 1977-dated U.S. coins will be accepted starting April 1, according to the Bureau of the Mint. The announcement was delayed because of indecision about the price - which (it has now been decided) will raised to 90 per set.Six coins will be involved in the 1977 proof set - the 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50-cent pieces and the Eisenhower dollar. All will carry the San Francisco "S" mintmark.Those who are not on the Mint's mailing list...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 18, 1977
Cocktails for $2,000 |
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George Plimpton was late. On the way from the airport his car had gotten caught in the traffic around the shah's demonstration's and it took him more than an hour to get out to Silver Spring.At another time he might have been on his way to see the shah himself, might have been there in the White House instead of edging around it. He has always been in the middle of things by design - participatory journalism he calls it - and sometimes by coincidence. He boxed with...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 13, 1977
Israel Makes Concession To 'Smoke Out the Arabs' |
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The Israeli Cabinet's unanimous approval of the joint U.S.-Israeli working paper on the reconvening of a Middle East peace conference represents a procedural concession in that Israel is now apparently willing to sit down with Palestinians at Geneva. This represents a bold move in terms of Israeli domestic politics and may yet get the government into trouble.Yet Israel has already set up so many preconditions as to who may be considered an acceptable Palestinian that the United...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 11, 1977
Park Pictured as Only One of Many Korea Lobbyists |
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White public attention has been focused almost exclusively on South Korean businessman Tongsun Park in th federal investigations of foreign influence-buying in Congress, there have been indications all along that the South Korean effort was more than a one-man show.Investigators have been told that Korean diplomats as well as other "unofficial" agents were involved - indeed, that Park was viewed as a lobbying rival by the South Korean ambassador.Thus even if...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 21, 1977
Retarded Newlyweds Seek New Life |
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My brother, who is 29 and has been mentally retarded since birth, took a day off from work this summer to marry the girl of his dreams.The marriage of Roger Drake Meyers and Virginia Rae Hensler 26, who has also been retarded since the day she was born, took place in the sun-speckled nave of a suburban California church. The groom, a busboy in a local restaurant, wore a three-piece black suit and a flower in his lapel.The bride, who is studying to be a housekeeper, wore a white satin...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 10, 1977
'Bergland Here' |
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My father voted for Hoover in 1928. Then everything went down around his ears and he became a farm laborite. I grew out of that environment, and that's why I have a very suspicious streak in me.Bob Bergland AN OMEN: Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland has just finished telling the Millers' National Federation about grain price supports, and is hot-footing it for his limo parked outside the Capitol Hilton, when he is intercepted by a man in a...
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