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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 2, 1977
Loading the Dice For the Lucky Seven |
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OPEC, OF COURSE, is not a cartel. It can't carve up output among its member countries - often split among themselves - and thus is impotent to fix the overall level of oil supply. These homely chores are performed for OPEC by the real cartel, the incestuous Seven Sisters, five U.S., one British and one Dutch-British global firms. They determine whether the oil tap is opened or closed, country by country, and thereby validate OPEC's price pronouncements.These...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 25, 1977
Park Was Paid $8 Million for Helping Rice Sales |
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A major American rice exporter paid Washington businessman Tongsun Park nearly $8 million over four years in fees for "assisting" its sales of rice to South Korea, according to Internal Revenue Service documents obtained by The Washington Post.The $7,889,051 was paid to Park between August, 1972 and January, 1976, by Connell Rice and Sugar Co. of Westfield, N.J. At least $1.5 million of that amount was U.S. government money that financed South Korea's...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 18, 1977
Sadat Trip Set Saturday |
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is to arrive in Israel Saturday night for a historic two-day visit during which he will present the Arab case to the Knesset.Prime Minister Menahem Begin, in announcing that Sadat would address the Israeli parliament Sunday afternoon, expressed the hope that this first visit by an Arab leader to the Jewish state "will open a serious negotiation for Middle East peace."Sadat in Jerusalem! The news that the leader of the Arab world...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 28, 1977
Arthur Stewart McInnes, Retired Riggs Executive |
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Arthur Stewart McInnes, 57, a retired executive of Riggs National Bank, died Thursday at Holy Cross Hospital after a long illness.He had retired Sept 1. after serving earlier as vice president and manager of the main office for seven years.Born in Syosset, Long Island, Mr. McInnes attended Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University and the American Institute of Banking.He worked for three years for Bankers Trust Co. in New York before joining Riggs here in 1941. He...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 29, 1977
Israelis Reject Washington's Criticism |
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a restrained response today to criticism from Washington that Israel had not excluded "any territory whatsoever" from expected peace discussions with the Arab states.Privately, however, Israeli officials objected to what one called "a public scolding" that could only increase the atmosphere of confrontation when Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Carter next month.The Israel statements...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 20, 1977
Marriner S. Eccles Is Dead at 87 |
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Marriner S. Eccles, 87, a millionaire who formulated many of the fiscal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal," died last night at his home is Salt Lake City.Mr. Eccles made his contributions from the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board and then of the Federal Reserve System, guardian of the nation's money supply.He held those positions from 1934 to 1948. After relinquishing them, he remained a memeber of the... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 6, 1977
Controlling Money Supply Proving Difficult for Fed |
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To most people, the problem relating to the money supply is that their is inadequate. For most, their control of money is governed by a simple and stern rule - you stop spending when you run out.But in the monetary world of the Federal Reserve Board, the game is played by different rules. The Fed's purpose - among other things - is to make sure that the nation has an adequate money supply: Enough to finance expansion so that new jobs are created; not so much that people spend... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 5, 1977
Alaska's Parks Rouse the Passions |
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For a murderous mountain, McKinley looked benign. A 20,320-foot cream puff suspended over the clouds in a baby blue sky. Denali, the Indians call it: "The Great One."Glued to the windows of a low-flying plane, the party from Washington marveled at the mountain, rising suddenly from an olive plateau. Below, the Sustina River braided in an ever shifting channel. Ahead lay a turbulent landscape of pitted glaciers, some delicately suspended from stark peaks like frozen...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 9, 1977
Cooperstown: Two Parts Joy, One of Sadness |
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They gathered again this year - none of them young, some very old, a few in wheelchairs - on the Veranda of the Otesaga Hotel at sundown.Spry Stan Musial led the laughter. Dapper Burleigh Grimes, 85, told tall tales. Cool Papa Bell said he could score from first on a sacrifice bunt when he was 45 and Robin Roberts answered, "Yeah, without touching third."Stan Coveleski shifted a 1925 Washington Senators World Series ring from his scrawny ring finger to his...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 12, 1977
Germans Coming 'Home' |
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BAD GODSBERG, West Germany - "In Romania," says 58-years-old Franz Niemevv, "it was like living in a bird's cage and, as soon as the cage was opened, I flew to a free life."The life for which Niemevv left is, at the moment at least, a sparse one-room flat with a communal basement in this otherwise well-to-do suburb of Bonn.It is far from his farm in Romania and from the house he had to sell for one-twelfth its value. The...
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