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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 28, 1977
A Single Red Rose for Each of the 117 Victims |
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One month after the world's worst air disaster at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, the last victims, their bodies burned beyond recognition, were brought here today to be buried together.With a 77-member red-robed choir singing above the noise of the nearby southern California freeways, a single red rose for each victim was placed in a bouquet as the 117 names were read by a cemetery official. About 400 relatives or friends of the victims attending the 45-minutes service stood...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 14, 1977
Profits Up 5.3% At IBM, 12.5% At Westinghouse |
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International Business Machines Corp., the world's largest computer maker, yesterday said first-quarter earnings were up 5.3 per cent over last year's first-quarter results.Chairman Frank T. Cary said earnings from worldwide operations were $573 million ($3.82 a share) compared with $544 million ($3.63).Cary noted that outright purchases of data processing equipment, although somewhat higher than during the first quarter of 1976, were substantially less than...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 9, 1977
New Israeli Moves On West Bank Cited |
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Israeli Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon asserted yesterday in a newspaper interview that several new Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River have sprung up secretly during the past month.The Zionist Federation, which is responsible for setting up the settlements, denied it.Sharon, a former general who led Israeli forces across the Suez Canal in 1973, has embarrassed fellow ministers lately by proclaiming major plans for new settlements while Prime Minister...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 31, 1977
RATES EASE |
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Interest rates charged by Japanese commercial banks on business loans averaged 6.913 per cent a year in November, down 0.145 per cent from October, the Bank of Japan reported yesterday.Interest on short-term loans averaged 5.826 per cent, lowest since the end of World War II, the central bank said. The previous low was 5.892 per cent in March 1953. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 24, 1977
History's Bottom Line |
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THE SUCCESS OF Lord Clark's "Civilisation," Jacob Bronowski's "Ascent of Man," and Alistair Cooke's "America" has naturally whetted the appetite of the BBC for series that instruct as well as entertain. An obvious gap seemed to be the role of economic thought in the history of the last 200 years. And who better than Professor Galbraith for such a task?His experience as a...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 7, 1977
Soviet State at 60: Strong and Proud |
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Today, with the largest military show in the past few years, the Soviet Union celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution that delivered Russia from centuries of czarist despotism and established a new kind of authoritarian government that has successfully ruled in the name of the people for six decades.In their real to assert in every possible way how this government is better and more benevolent than Russian's earlier rulers, or the rulers of all the other...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 17, 1977
Venezuela: Oil-Rich, Food-Poor |
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Like the mythical King Midas, who starved in the midst of plenty, oil-rich Venezuela is finding it can do just about anything with its money except eat it.Caracas bank accounts are overflowing, and worldwide oil price increases have tripled the national income over the last three years, but Venezuela is suffering a food shortage so severe that President Carlos Andres Perez has labeled it his government's number one priority.Grocery shelves here are often bare of such basic...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 13, 1977
Soviets Are Moving to Extract 'Blue Gold' |
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Buried deep in Siberia's frozen vastness is a vast trove of what the Russians call "blue gold," a quantity of natural gas that is yet to be fully measured but already assures the Soviet Union a place in the future as one of the world's biggest energy producers, perhaps even the largest of all.Over the past decade, important gas deposits have been surveyed for the first time in a number of regions around the country - the eastern Ukraine,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 12, 1977
It's Business as Usual at Hanafi's Jewelry Shop |
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Abdul Aziz might have been any harassed businessman, standing behind the counter of this Georgetown jewelry shop yesterday morning, opening mail, answering the phone and filling out a Riggs Bank deposit slip, preparing for business as usual.Except that Aziz hadn't had much sleep the night before. His father-in-law, Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, was the leader of the Hanafi Muslim men who held scores of persons hostage here for almost two days.Wednesday evening, in a chilling scene...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 19, 1977
The Mideast: Tragedy Looms Again |
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President Carter's once-forceful Mideast peace plan has deteriorated so rapidly that Israel's more thoughtful American backers fear what they call Prime Minister Menachem Begin's "creeping annexation" of the West Bank will go forward, without effective interference from Washington, to a climax of blood and tragedy.This view may be premature and unfair to Carter. But it is held by the shrewdest American Jewish leaders, many of whom... |
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