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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 26, 1977
Sadat, Begin Draft Principles for Peace |
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The leaders of Egypt and Israel met on the banks of the Suez Canal Sunday to draft a joint set of guidelines for peace agreements that would end three decades of hostility in the Middle East.President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menahem Begin immediately agreed to bring their foreign and defense ministers into long-range negotiations and were said to be making good progress on the joint declaration.By early afternoon on Christmas Day, it was announced that Begin would extend his... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 8, 1977
Unitarians Back Rights For Women, Homosexuals |
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The General Assembly of the Unitarian-Universalist Association (UUA) has endorsed resolutions favoring legalized abortion, homosexual rights, the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, substantial U.S. initiatives for nuclear disarmament and a U.S.-Canadian grain bank as a hedge against the possibility of world famine.Most of the delegates' actions were unanimous or close to it.One resolution supported a decision of the UUA board of trustees not to hold UUA...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 28, 1977
Social Security: U.S. Umbilical Cord |
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Down a long corridor, behind doors marked "secured" and "alarmed," stands the center of the real world of government today. Quite clean, uncluttered, unharried, not at all the picture of the bloated bureaucracy so pressed on the public mind of late. Certainly not a world that George Orwell ever envisioned when he conjured up his nightmarish specter of an obstrusive, omnipresent government structure where Big Brother was always watching. Not many...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 8, 1977
Central Bank Intervention |
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The Federal Reserve and other central bank intervened heavily in foreign exchange markets during June and July, partly to calm skittishness over comments on exchange-rate policies by U.S. and European officials, the New York Federal Reserve Bank reported yesterday.During the May-July quarter, the New York Fed bought dollars with the equivalent of $142.3 million of marks and $3.3 million of Dutch guilders to calm what were seen as disorderly markets, the bank said. The details were provided...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 14, 1977
Increased Business Investment Urged |
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The Bank for International Settlements, a vehicle for Western Europe's central bankers, today urged industrial nations to tackle stagflation - by spurring business investment.[Stagflation refers to a combination of a stagnant economy and inflation.] In its annual report delivered from BIS headquarters in Basle, the bank contends that increased outlays for factories and machines are lagging and should be stimulated by making industry more profitable.The institution did...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 13, 1977
Credit Bank Woes Mount |
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The Swiss Banking Commission charged Credit Susse bank yesterday with knowing as far back as 1969 that its branch office in Chiasso was granting unauthorized guarantees on investors funds channeled to the Texon holding company in Liechtenstein.Bernhard Mueller, director of the commission, said Credit Bank's headquarters in Zurich failed in its responsibility for controlling the activities of the Chiasso branch.The Chiasso management, he said, continued to grant such...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 8, 1977
Miles and |
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VERY SHORTLY, anyone interested in world tourism development will be aware of Cancun. Its green, sunblessed shores and warm, clear waters will be the scene of a major new tourist center: The Mexican Caribbean. Cancun's dramatic development will demonstrate how government planning and funding can be combined with international banking aid to speed Mexico's growth. In addition, Cancun will offer attractive investment and vacation opportunities to many people around the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 23, 1977
Pretoria-Peking Friendship Stimulated by Soviet Enemy |
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The east wind of world revolution forecast by Mao Tse-tung has lost much of the threat it once held for white power in South Africa, according to some leading officials and businessmen here who see China's changing foreign policy as the missing key piece in the power puzzle of southern Africa."I would vote with both hands for good ties to Red China," Jan Marais, one of South Africa's most prominent financiers and a spokesman for white...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 2, 1977
Small Is Still Beautiful |
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ANYONE FORTUNATE enough to have known Fritz Schumacher, who died last month, will now be chiefly mourning the loss of a friend who combined a remarkable innovating intelligence and rigor of mind with the greatest gentleness and humor. But what the world has lost is of far greater importance.It was in the 1960s, at the height of the euphoria about "stages of growth" that would lead the developing world, in the wake of Western prosperity, to the same ultimate felicity...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 4, 1977
TO DIE IN TIJUANA |
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Sylvia Karydakis Dutton, 53, the first woman to manage a bank branch in Washington, died of cancer August 15 in Tijuana, Mexico, where she had gone for treatment.The Washington Post September 1976 BY THE TIME Sylvia Dutton was aware that something serious was wrong, it was probably too late to do anything about it. It was the autumn of 1975, and "she started to be tired" her husband remembers. "She had a little pain and they...
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