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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 5, 1977
'Wild Man' May be Next Israeli Defense Head |
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"To them I was a wild man," wrote Ezer Weizman, Israel's likely next defense minister, in his recent autobiography. "A senior commander who claimed that we have the right to Hebron and Nablus and all of Jerusalem and that we must endeavor to implant that right by force of arms if there is no other alternative . . . that anyone who claimed [otherwise] was sinning against Zonism. They viewed me as a national desperado."That was...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 26, 1977
South Korea: New Economic Miracle |
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From a mammoth shipyard on the southern coast of South Korea, new tankers and cargo ships are built for customers in Greece, Finland, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada and the Middle East.Down the road a few miles, an automobile plant turns out cars that are exported to 27 countries in Africa, the Middle East and South America.At other factories around the country, workers, are producing plywood and machinery for Japan, television sets for Great Britain, steel wire for the United States, and...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 17, 1977
Little-Known Group Has Toughened U.S. Rights Actions |
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A little-known group within the Carter administration has succeeded, in a series of unannounced steps, in toughening the execution of U.S. policy on human rights.In recent weeks the so-called Christopher Group, going beyond what Congress has mandated, has blocked a U.S. loan to Chile and has caused the government to vote against or abstain from approving multinational loans to Chile, Argentina, South Korea and the Philippines.The group, consisting of representatives from several...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 1, 1977
France Cuts Loan Rates |
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The Bank of France, the country's central bank, yesterday cut its official discount rate on loans by a full percentage point to 9.5 per cent from 10.5 per cent.The reduction was anticipated following the announcement earlier in the day by Credit Industriel et Commercial, a private deposit bank, that it was lowering its basic lending rate to 9.3 per cent from 9.5 per cent. Other French banks are expected to follow suit. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 14, 1977
Boos of Chicago Fans Reflect Team's Collapse |
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The booing has started here. It is soft, more resigned than venomous.On Thursday night the Chicago White Sox left town and they heard smatherings of it. On Friday afternoon the Chicago Cubs returned home and the sad sound was waiting for them, too.Chicagoans have a hard time believing that their fantasy of a World Series on the "L" between White Sox Park and Wrigley Field has gone up in smoke so quickly.No, no, that's not right. They find it...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 22, 1977
Marriott: Cold Root Beer to $1 Billion Enterprise |
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The thing about Washington that J. Willard Marriott noticed most when he passed through in the mid 1920s was the hot summers. Root beer, though Marriott, will go well with all the heat.So, 50 years ago yesterday morning, Marriott opened a nine-seat root beer stand in the 3100 block of 14th Street NW and began selling cold mugs at a nickel apiece to hot and thirsty Washingtonians. Marriott had anticipated well.The company now employs 13,600 people in the Washington area -...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 1, 1977
Shrieks, Moans, Crackles and Gunshots: The Glacier Awakens |
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The thing about glaciers is the noise. We sat for hours in front of the awesome one at Lago Argentino, near the southwest tip of Argentina, trying to describe the various sounds.A thousand lumberjacks breaking branches over their knees. Then trains crashing, or boxcars grinding together. A bowling alley, caged animals, and fearsome moments of total silence. Shrieks, moans, crackles, gunshots and rolling thunder punctuated by the dizzying spectacle of great slabs of blinding, blue-white ice...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 22, 1977
Witteveen to Leave IMF Post Next August |
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director H. J. Wittveen surprised the international financial community yesterday by announcing that he will leave his influential post next August.Witteveen, who in the normal course of affairs would have begun a second five-year term Sept. 1, 1978, withdrew "for personal reasons."Sources close to the IMF managing director said he had decided not to stay away any longer from his native Holland, where his wife and four...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 29, 1977
Farmers Agonize Over 'Revolution' That May Not Come |
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Out here in the Westlands Water District, where the cotton and alfalfa grow, the farmers and their friends are agonizing over a revolution that may never come.The "revolution," a word used frequently by its advocates and its adversaries, is the new set of regulations proposed by the Department of the Interior for land receiving water from a federal reclamation project.The principal regulations would eliminated absentee ownership and set up a lottery that would...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 28, 1977
Ocean City: Boom and Bust Versus the Basics |
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"What you have here," say the people who make money running the businesses in which the vacationers spend it, "is two different cities with the same address."And so what you have is the tale of two cities. One is the story of a small town and the old families who built it, generation upon generation and, in building it, prospered. The other is the story of a boom town, where dreams fed dreams and high rises were built on high hopes and the...
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