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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 6, 1977
Administration Supports IMF Loan Fund Increase |
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The Carter administration yesterday formally denied that American commercial banks are becoming over committed in their loans to foreign countries - notably to lesser developed nations.At the same time, to minimize the need for private lenders to assume "undue rusks," and as a way of disciplining borrowers, the United States is backing a major increase in the resources of the International Monetary Fund.These points were made in testimony by C. Fred Bergsten,... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 2, 1977
New Dispute Over Lance |
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Federal bank examiners are engaged in a new dispute with the First National Bank of Calhoun, Ga., over Officer of Management and Budget Director Bert Lance's check-writing practices, the president of the bank confirmed yesterday.The president, John Davis, said last night the bank examiners believe his bank is continuing to permit Lance to overdraw his personal checking account there, in violation of an earlier agreement to cease overdrafts to Lance.The bank heatedly... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 25, 1977
Begin Bars Withdrawal |
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Prime Minister Menahem Begin told the World Zionist Congress that Israel will not "under any circumstances" give up all of the West Bank or allow a Palestinian state to be formed there and in the Gaza Strip.Begin said proposals for Israel's withdrawal and a Palestinian homeland are "a threat to the very existence of the Jewish state." Israel is ready to negotiate with Arab countries, he said, but will insist on a full peace treaty...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 20, 1977
World Nudges Remote Town |
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Sudan The modern world is coming to this isolated Nile River town deep in southern Sudan in strange bits and pieces that do not quite add up yet to the much-advertised "new Juba."Imagine a town of 130,000 that has no telephone communications with the country's capital but has just gotten color television, and where a sleek Boeing 737 arrives daily from the outside world but local cars and trucks are often immobilized for weeks because there is no...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 21, 1977
Lance's Not Upsetting, He's Simply a Banker |
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IT IS FRIDAY as I write this. I have just come from the bank. The lines were long. The women in front of me was making a deposit for the entire city of Washington. She held in her hand a paper bag and she deposited approximately $4 billion in nickels. Then my turn came. The teller would not cash my check even though I had just deposited more than that amount. She said I didn't have enough money in my account. She is, in my book, a banker.The women behind me moaned. The teller...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 22, 1977
New Light on Lance Transactions |
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Bert Lance's National Bank of Georgia deposited $200,000 in a non-interest-bearing account in the First National Bank of Chicago one month before he obtained a $3.4 million personal loan from the Chicago bank, The Washington Post learned yesterday.Lance began shoppong for the loan from the Chicago bank on Dec. 2, 1976, the day before Carter officially announced the appointment of his longtime friend and confidant as head of the Office and Management and Budget.Six days...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 18, 1977
Taxing the Rich Countries To Aid the Poor |
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THE BASIC DISTRIBUTION of the world's wealth has changed little in the recent decades of rapid growth. In 1977,as in 1947, some 80 per cent of trade and investments 93 per cent of industry and almost 100 per cent of research, services, insurance banking facilities are controlled by the market and planned economies of "The North" (with Australasia and South Afric as wealthy "Southern appendages"). Yet the population of affluent lands is...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 15, 1977
Cholera Epidemic |
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New cases of cholera were reported in Iran, on the Isreali-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and in four Western European countries, but officials of the World Health Organization here said the epidemic is being brought under control. Two cases were reported in Britain and one each in Italy, West Germany and the Netherlands - all among recent arrivals from the Middle East. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 19, 1977
Panama Treaty Negotiator Quits N.Y. Bank Board |
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Sol M. Linowitz, co-chairman of the U.S. team negotiating a new Panama Canal treaty, resigned from the board of Marine Midland Bank of New York this week after questions of conflicts of interest were raised by legislators."He's done this to avoid any implications of conflict that might affect ratification of a new treaty," said Ambler Moss, an aide to Linowitz.Linowitz, who is co-chairman with Ambassodor Ellsworth Bunker, was criticized Feb. 21 for...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 11, 1977
U.S. Pledges Cooperation in Global Lending |
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The Carter administration yesterday launched its foreign aid program with a pledge to "play a fair and agreed share" in world development, accompanied by an assurance to Congress that it would seek its cooperation in the formulation of policy.In an effort to restore a sense of credibility in American commitments, Treasury official C. Fred Bertgsten told a congressional subcommittee that the Carter administration backs a full U.S. contribution to the...
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