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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 28, 1977
SURPLUS EASES |
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Japan's overall balance of payments in November totalled more than $1 billion for the third consecutive month, the Fukuda government announced yesterday.Revised figures released by the Finance Ministry and the Bank of Japan showed the current account balance was $1.13 billion in the black before allowing for seasonal variations, slightly down from the $1.36 billion registered in October.The current account includes trade as well as exchange of services, unilateral monetary...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 28, 1977
THE PENNIES MOUNT UP |
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Officially, Halloween will not arrive until Monday, Oct. 31. However, I suspect that for one reason or another at least a few hobgoblins may ring your doorbell this weekend. Especially the smaller ones, who are not allowed to stay up very late on school nights.I am sure that every sensible householder will be well supplied with trick insurance in the form of candy and other goodies. After all, who would want to incur the wrath of a 3-year-old who can just barely enunciate...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 13, 1977
Charges Against Israel |
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A Swiss human-rights group that recently sent four representatives to the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Jordan accused Israeli authorities of systematically torturing Arabs there and of trying to drive them from the area.The report issued by the Swiss Human Rights League was written by its president, Denis Payot, who currently is acting as intermediary between the West German government and kidnapers of a leading industrialist.The report accuses Israel of violating the Universal...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 28, 1977
A 'Sacred Treasure' |
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Yesterday at 3 p.m., in his official residence, Fumihiko Togo, the Japanese ambassador, opened a black lacquar box, removed a decoration, unhooked its silk ribbon, and placed it round the next of Un'ichi Hiratsuka. It only took a moment Un'ichi Hiratsuka place hands' on knees and bowed. The ambassador bowed back. For the first time in recent memory The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class, had been given to a Japanese artist and expatriate. The honor had...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 23, 1977
Woodies' Secret Is for Children |
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Never mind downtown Christmas traffic, shortened tempers and prices that are often much too high.None of this unpleasantness exists in a room of fantasy on Woodie's second floor, across from Santa's snowdomed throne, just past the Star Wars force beams, Weeble villages of plastic little egg-shaped people and bionic dolls.Through four-foot-tall garlanded archways, enter a Christmas market-place stocked with stacks of low-cost gifts from 35 cents to $5 each....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 22, 1977
Coffee Perks Brazil Trade |
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With coffee-export income leading the way, Brazil had its first trade surplus in four years in the first five months of 1977, the Bank of Brazil's export division, CACEX, reported yesterday.Exports totaled $4.974 billion for the first five months, a 47 per cent increase over the same period in 1976, while Brazilian imports for the same period totaled $4.938 billion. This gives Brazil a commercial account trade surplus of $36 million - its first such surplus in four years, the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 18, 1977
Soviet Offices Bombed |
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A group protesting Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's visit to France next week bombed two Soviet buildings here. No one was injured, but the blasts wrecked the offices of France U.S.S.R. Magazine and slightly damaged the Soviet-owned Commercial Bank of Europe. In telephone calls to police, the protesters said bombs also were planted at two other locations, but no explosives were found. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 9, 1977
Aldrich: The Survival Of an Amiable Cynic |
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"This film thoroughly immoderate. Everything in it is garish and overdone: It's paced, too fast and pitched too high immorality is attacked with almost obscene relish, the knife turns into a buzz saw. But with all these fauls of taste, perhaps because of them, who can take his eyes off the screen?"-Pauline Kael on Robert Aldrich's "The Big Knife"I have some kind of innate sense of survival," Robert Aldrich...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 27, 1977
The Wines of Alsace: Sadly Overlooked |
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Happily, France is a country where one doesn't eat food - other than a breakfast coisant - without wine. Therefore the question isn't, as it is in this country, "Shall we drink wine?" Instead one is able to come directly to the point and ask, "What wine shall we drink?"Invariably, savants counsel one to drink the wine of the region. That's fine advice, especially in Alsace.Critics praise the wines of...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 25, 1977
Icy Magic |
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Some skaters glided in a professional way, others were more awkward, as though trying to remember a dance step that would soon come back.They skated in pairs or alone,. children held onto a parent for dear life, their strides looking as precarious as when they first learned to walk.The sun shone bright, early in the day, and the air was clear and cold, making the weather perfect for skating. The skaters, bundled warmly in colorful clothes, seemed not to mind the...
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