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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 3, 1977
SBA Benefits To Minorities Aid Well-Off |
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Someone who earns almost $40,000 a year as an assistant to the President of the United States wouldn't seem to be an "economically and socially disadvantaged" person who needs special help from the taxpayers to earn a living.Yet, according to internal documents of the Small Business Administration, the SBA obligingly gave that designation to two former Nixon administration aides - Robert J. Brown and Antonio Rodriguez - when they left the White House...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 27, 1977
Naming of Dayan Leads to Breakoff Of Coalition Talks |
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A key left-of-center political faction abruptly broke off negotiations on a coalition with the Likud Party today because of the party's selection of Moshe Dayan as foreign minister in a new government.The Democratic Movement for Change, with which the rightist Likud had been negotiating to form a broad coalition government, said after a meeting tonight that it was suspending all negotiations until the "clock is turned back" and the Dayan appointment...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 11, 1977
RATE RISE |
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The Netherlands will raise its bank rate to 4.5 per cent from 3.5 per cent today, the Dutch Central Bank said yesterday. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 22, 1977
Burns: On the Way Out? |
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During the first week of September as the Lance affair became a crisis, President Carter's top economic policymakers met over breakfast and reached an informal agreement that is building consternation through Wall Street.The agreement: When Arthur Burns concludes eight years as heads of the Federal Reserve Board next January, he should not be reappointed chairman - not even for a two-year short term. That means Carter must overrule his senior advisers to keep Burns running the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 21, 1977
West German Elite Learning to Live With Siege Mentality |
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"It's true that things will probably never be the same again," said the Mercedes-Benz executive. "But it is really quite similar to what happened after the first bomb attacks on airports."Airports have never been the same, but people got used to it."The executive was talking about the effects of the recent wave of terrorist murders and kidnappings that has stunned West Germany and produced something of a siege... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 15, 1977
Resolution 242: To the Victor, No Spoils |
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It remains to be seen what, if anything, will come of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's peace missions to the Middle East, but it has certainly centered attention on United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which for 10 years has been the principal basis of international efforts to transquilize the region.Although 242 has perhaps become the most publicized of all U.N. Security Council declarations, it is by no means fully understood. Even some of the drafters have...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 29, 1977
A unit of four "Skilled Hands for Independence" s |
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A unit of four "Skilled Hands for Independence" stamps will be issued July 4 in Cincinnati. Designs of the individual 13-cent stamps will feature a blacksmith, wheelwright, leather-worker and seamstress, whose skills supported the troops in the field during the Revolution.Leonard Everett Fisher designed the stamp quartet. Printing will be in six colors, with six plates showing in the selvedge.First-day cover orders should be mailed to the Postmaster,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 12, 1977
Walter Anderson Dies, Executive Of Telephone Firm, Ex-Consul |
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Walter Stralton Anderson, Jr., 65, a vice president and Washington representative of General Telephone and Electronics, Inc., and a Foreign Service Officer for 25 years, died of cancer Tuesday at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring.Mr. Anderson was born in New York. He was a graduate of the Loomis School in Boston and of Harvard University where he completed studies in political science in 1933.After working several years for the American Security and Trust bank here, he joined the... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 20, 1977
The Hostage-Takers: An Epidemic of People Gone Mad |
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Day after day the bulletins of violence, siege and terrorized hostages burst forth - New Rochelle, Cincinnati, Indianpolis, Silver Spring, Wheaton, a small town in North Carolina an Air Force base in Arkansas - 10 incidents in 12 days. An epidemic, it seemed, of people gone mad.The lone hostage-taker-your "average" citizen with a gun - is a growing phenonmenon of our stressful times, say psychiatrists and police. It has spawned new experts unheard of five years ago...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 11, 1977
Europe Gives Carter C+ On Economy |
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If the Carter administration has not magically endowed Western Europe with a return to the 25 years of postwar properity, few Europeans would argue that Washington has placed obstacles in the paths of the tepid recoveries that are under way almost everywhere.Carter and company have so far resisted the steep slide behind protective trade barriers that many in Europe feared would be erected. The U.S. is learning to live with large deficits in its trading balances that the Germans and...
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