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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 21, 1977
Begin Cabinet Approved by Parliament |
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Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister today as his new government was formally presented to the Knesset (Parliament) and survived its first vote of confidence early this morning by a majority of 63 to 53.It was the first time in 29 years, since the founding of the Jewish state, that an opposition party had come to power. Even among Begin's opponents, there was a sense of history and a feeling that the democratic process had been well served in a free...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 6, 1977
Seychelles Coup 'Judas' Plot, Says Toppled Leader |
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Mancham, the swinging president of the recently independent Seychelles Islands, was overthrown early today in a coup he insists was Soviet-inspired.In London for a conference of Commonwealth leaders, Mancham was having breakfast at the Savoy Hotel, where he is staying in a $250 a night suite, when he was interrupted by a British Foreign Office official with the news that he had been ousted."It is a Judas story," said the 37-year-old international playboy, poet...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 6, 1977
Israel: 10 Years After Victory, No Peace |
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Ten years ago today the Six-Day War erupted in the Middle East. Two days later, Israeli troops stormed through St. Stephens Gate into the old walled city of Jerusalem and, after overcoming the resistance of Jordan's Arab Legion, reunited the city for the first time in nearly 20 years.The barricades that had divided Jerusalem were torn down in a moment of hope and exhilaration that many Iraelis remember today as the high point of their own lives and of the nation's...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 3, 1977
Howell Links Foe's Campaign to Bigotry |
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Virginia gubernatorial candidate Henry Howell sought last night to link his opponent's campaign to what he called "bigotism" and "anti-semitism" and called on him to repudiate the support of two figures from the state Democratic Party's ultraconservative past.In a speech at the B'rith Sholom Center here, Howell charged that support of former Attorney General Andrew P. Miller by former Virginia Reps. William...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 29, 1977
Crabs |
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Since marine creatures are unfamiliar to many people, this section offers some detail about their life cycles and styles. It's useful to remember that minomers are the rule here. The blue crab is green; the horse-shoe crab isn't even a crab, zoologically speaking. But the mid-Atlantic beach wouldn't be the same without these critters. Here are some of the more common and visible ones: Blue Crab When most people think "crab"...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 27, 1977
Angola: A Lean First Year of Independence |
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In Angola, the other week, there were no matches.You must experience it to know what this means: Anxious smokers pounced on travelers to ask them, for the love of God, for a bit of fire. They stopped cars to beg the use of their lighters. They seemed almost ready to sit down and rub two stones together, to strike the spark that would save their lives.There were also no bars of soap, no milk, no aspirin, no razor blades or any of a number of other simple things of daily life. In some...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 27, 1977
Lockheed Paid $38 Million in Bribes Abroad |
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Top officers of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. inaugurated and directed a program of foreign bribery that included questionable payments of up to $38 million from 1970 through 1975, according to a court-ordered report made public yesterday.Previous studies of the aerospace company's foreign payments had put the total at less than $25 million. At the same time, yesterday's report found no evidence that Lockheed made any illegal political contributions in the United...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 18, 1977
Ring, Madison Avenue Joined in Marriage |
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Even Howard Cosell was disgusted as he walked away from his postfight interview with Muhammad Ali Monday night. Ali had just won a yawner by decision after 15 rounds of alternately holding Alfredo Evangelista and playing peek-a-boo with him. It was artful showmanship, nothing new to Cosell.But Cosell gave his national television audience a dramatic recap of Ali's illustrious fights of the past, recapping the many triumphs against great odds. He concluded with a poignant...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 5, 1977
Nixon: 'I Was Trying to Contain It Politically . . .' |
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Here is the text of David Frost's televised interview with former President Nixon.Frost: It was on the night of June the 17, 1972, that five men were arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. It turned out later that the break-in had involved such key Nixon supporters as Howard hunt and Gordon Liddy, and had been planned by the President's own re-election committee, headed by former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell and his...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 10, 1977
Latin America: A Search for Profit-Sharing |
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For years, scholars have been telling Foggy Bottom and Capitol Hill that Latin America exists only as a georgraphic unit, and that a one-poncho policy cannot cover all of the varied sociesies south of Texas.No one has officially disagreed. Nonetheless, Washington policy-makers have continued to launch a series of Special Relationships, New Realisms and New Dialogues with the assumption that some overall community of goals exist among the Latin countries and between Latin America and the...
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