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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 24, 1977
Production has begun of a new British one pound ( |
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Production has begun of a new British one pound ($1.70) note bearing a portrait of the queen which will be issued to the public early next year, the Bank of England announced yesterday. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 3, 1977
A West German court sent two urban guerrillas of |
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A West German court sent two urban guerrillas of the Baader-Meinhof left-wing extremist group to prison for life in the murder of two policemen during a bank robbery in 1972. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 1, 1977
All foreign banks operating in Saudi Arabia must |
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All foreign banks operating in Saudi Arabia must sell a majority of the stock in their local branches to Saudi nationals within a year, the government announced yesterday.The decree, approved by the cabinet Sunday, affects one American bank - First National City - and nine others with headquarters in Western Europe, elsewhere in the Middle East and in Pakistan. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 3, 1977
The Argentine central bank froze the accounts of |
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The Argentine central bank froze the accounts of 16 companies connected to the investigations surrounding David Gravier, the missing financier whose financial group is accused of handling investments of leftist guerrillas. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 12, 1977
Former Bangladesh President Khondaker Mushtaque A |
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Former Bangladesh President Khondaker Mushtaque Ahmed, sentenced to five years in prison last month after being convicted of misusing $64,000 in public funds, has been acquitted of illegally withdrawing $4,500 from a bank account. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 12, 1977
What Direction for Foreign Aid? |
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The "horror stories" abound.There's the one about the Agency for International Development mission director in Cairo who leased a furnished villa there for his official use at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of $37,800 a year.And the AID mission director in Bogota who charged the American government $1,716.17 for silver tableware that he added to the government owned furnishings of his residence - after the United States decided to end its bilateral aid...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 18, 1977
Carter: '. . . Arms Race Has Only Increased the Risk of Conflict' |
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I am proud to be with you tonight in this house where the shared hopes of mankind can find a voice.I have come here to express my own support, and the continuing support of my country, for the ideals of the United Nations.We are proud that, for the 32 years since its creation, the United Nations has met on American soil. And we share with you the commitments to freedom, self-government, human dignity, mutual toleration, and peaceful resolution of disputes - which the founding...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 28, 1977
Warning of A Global Depression |
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What passes for speech in the Senate today is, for the most part, dreary and empty. Normally perhaps only a dozen members of that exclusive body are on the floor at any given time and their attention to what a senator happens to be reading - a marked change in the rules that once forbade written speeches - is indifferent.The other day, however, a carefully prepared speech that ventured some stern thoughts on the unthinkable shook up both Republicans and Democrats. The speaker, Sen. Jacob... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 23, 1977
Argentina's military government froze the assets |
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Argentina's military government froze the assets of six persons allegedly linked to scandals involving financier David Graiver, reported killed in a plane crash last August in Mexico. Officials estimated millions of dollars were in the frozen bank accounts. ... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 23, 1977
All in The Family |
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THIS INTERVIEW WAS conducted on a warm September afternoon in Regent's Park, London, where I had gone with John Gregory and our daughter Quintana. It was interrupted by lunch, the search for a laundromat, and considerable idle speculation about how much it would cost to rent a Nash house overlooking the park. Q. Publishers' Weekly described True Confessions (reviewed on page 3) as a "book by Joan Didion's husband" quote unquote.... |
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