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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 25, 1977
Ice Boating Race Seen For Area |
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Every year for the last five Jim Holechek and the Baltimore Ice Yacht Club have been organizing and scheduling the Baltimore Ice Yacht Regatta. And every year for the last five they've been canceling it for lack of ice.Fate and the vagaries of southern weather have conspired annually to rob Holechek of his dream. It looks like this year will make up for it all.Maryland, for the last two weeks, has the best ice-boating ice anywhere - hard, clear and unimpeded by snow....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 17, 1977
Chinese Posters, Wreaths Removed |
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Posters and slogans calling for a comeback by former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping were removed overnight from the center of the Chinese capital after a weeklong campaign. Authorities also took away the thousands of wreaths laid at Tien An Men Gate in memory of the late Premier Chou En-lai.In Shanghai, the campaign for Teng's rehabilitation spilled onto the streets, with posters calling for "old faithful" to return to "central...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 22, 1977
The Aviation Amendment That Couldn't Fly Straight, Law Congress passed, and Carter Signed, Turns Out to Be 180 Degrees Off Course |
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It started as one of those sweepingly decent gestures to give foreign residents of the United States one of the last rights they don't have - the right to own an airplane.But by the time Congress completed its humanitarian act last month, it set off alarm bells in the financial community, stunned the airlines and reddened faces on Capitol Hill.For what they had passed, and what President Carter signed into law Nov. 9, was making it impossible for U.S. corporations to...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 31, 1977
Hussein: Durable Ruler |
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Rather to the surprise of everyone in the Middle East, King Hussein Ibn Talal al-Hashim of Jordan is celebrating his silver jubilee this summer, marking 25 years of a "Perils-of Pauline" reign that few believed would last this long.This inexperienced teenager who ascended the throne of a weak and impoverished country when his schizophrenic father was forced to abdicate in 1952 has become the Arab world's most durable ruler.He has survived war,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 25, 1977
Begin, Sadat Open Peace Talks Today |
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A devout Moslem and a devout Jew sit down on Christmas Day along the Suez Canal to negotiate a settlement of the bloody dispute that has afflicted the Holy Land, their nations and the Middle East for 30 years.Despite many contacts in public and through undercover channels established between Egypt and Israel over the past six weeks and widespread belief in a secret consensus, informed officials say that a deal between President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menahem Begin has not been made...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 30, 1977
Algeria: Hijackers' Heaven |
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LOVELY COUNTRY, Algeria, if you're a hijacker. It's now the one place remaining in the world where you can be absolutely sure of sanctuary and tender treatment. Why, if you hie off to Algeria and demand, as a Japanese group recently did, to keep the ransom you've just exacted from somebody else and to be spared extradiction and to be allowed to leave later as you please and even to avoid being photographed, then Algeria will gladly accommodate you....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 25, 1977
Taiwan's New Way to Win Allies - Borrow Money |
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Finding itself increasingly isolated as foreign diplomats here pack up and move to Peking; this last bastion of Chinese anti-communism has stumbled across a unique way to win friends abroad - borrow their money.Making a virtue out of the need for foreign help in keeping a mineral poor islands economy alive, the Nationalist Chinese leaders of Taiwan have incurred estimated foreign debts of nearly $4 billion.Most of that is owed to American financial institutions, who have become some...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 11, 1977
Staff Disregarded Warning Signs In Lance Affair |
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Last Dec. 3, Matt Coffey, an official of the Carter-Mondale transition group in Washington, received a telephone call from an FBI agent who said he had been asked to pass on a warning.There might be some problems in the banking background of T. Bertham Lance. President-elect Carter's choice to head the Office of Management and Budget, the agent said.The call came in at about 1 p.m. in less than two hours, down in Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter was to hold a press conference to...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 7, 1977
S&Ls Lag In Lending Outside NW |
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Three of the five largest mortgage lenders in the District of Columbia are mortgage banking firms rather than savings and loan associations, a Washington Post computer analysis shows.In terms of the number of mortgage loans made in the city over the past three years, Colonial Mortgage Service Associates, Inc., is the largest lender in the city. However, in terms of the dollar value of mortgages, Colonial is second to Perpetual Federal Services and Loan.Among the top 20 mortgage...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 3, 1977
British Cut Rate |
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Four major British banks cut their base lending rates to 8.5 per cent from 9 per cent yesterday. At the same time, they reduced their deposit rate to 4 per cent from 4.5 per cent.The four are Barclay's Bank Ltd., National Westminister Bank Ltd., Midland Bank Ltd., and Lloyd's Bank. ...
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