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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 22, 1977
Commerce Official Warns Of Trade Deficit Problem |
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A Commerce Department official yesterday said that "the U.S. trade deficit problem could get out of hand if not effectively addressed," and called for a concerted drive to boost American exports.In a speech in Chicago, Frank A. Weil, assistant Secretary of Commerce for domestic and international business, took direct issue with recent assurances by the Treasury that the growing trade deficit was no cause for concern.Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 2, 1977
James Deaver Dies, Fairfax Businessman, Civic Leader |
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James Louis Deaver, 60, a Fairfax County businessman and civil leader, died of a cerebral hemmorhage Tuesday at Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital.He founded and became president of the Star Supply Co. of Annandale in 1946. After adding a store in Fairfax in 1965, the firm took the trading name of American Hardware and Lumber Stores. A third store was added in Herndon in 1975.A former field adviser to the Small Business Administration, Mr. Deaver had twice run unsuccessfully as a... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 2, 1977
Feminism Two Ways: A Utopian and a Freedom Fighter |
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"Sometimes," says Shere Hite, a bit archly, "I feel like hitting reporters over the head with my master's thesis."Never mind that close to 2 million copies of her study of female sexuality, "The Hite Report," are in print. Never mind that it has been written about in every magazine from the New Statesman and Paris Match to Modern romance, that it's being translated into 10 languages, including... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 29, 1977
'Small' Refiners Strike Gusher in FEA Oil Rule |
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This is the story of Paragraph 211.67 (e) in regulations of the Federal Energy Administration. Five hundred words long, the paragraph is adding $55 million a month to the cash flow of the nation's "small" oil refiners.The "small" refiners benefited by the paragraph include such up and coming concerns as Penzoil Corp., Dow Chemical Co., the Union Pacific Corp. and a refining company partly held by the heirs of the late H. L. Hunt.... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 27, 1977
An Evening Fit for a Crown Prince at Anderson House |
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Reprinted from yesterday's late editions.Henry Kissinger called it "an intimate little dinner," the kind he never misses, and he rushed right down from New York to become one of the more than 200 in either black tie or abayah basking in the royal glow Wednesday night.For Walter Page, president of Morgan Guaranty Trust, it was pure and simple "money - the Saudis have quite a bit of it," he said. And for Texaco's... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 6, 1977
Meanwhile, in Jidda, a prominent Saudi banker sug |
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Meanwhile, in Jidda, a prominent Saudi banker suggested that his country cut back its petroleum production and "bank oil rather than money."Sheik Abdul Rahman al-Sheik, former agriculture minister and now managing director of the Riyadh bank, told a local business magazine that Saudi Arabia should limit its crude oil production "to the needs and commitments of the country."Other countries suffer from a lack of funds. We suffer from an...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 20, 1977
Tanzania's Goal of Socialism 'Not Even in Sight' |
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In a remarkably frank assessment of 10 years of effort to build socialism in Tanzania, President Julius Nyerere has concluded that his country is certainly neither socialist nor self-reliant" and that the goal of making it to "is not even in sight."But he also asserts that Tanzania has taken "very important steps" toward becoming a socialist state and that the Tanzanian "national ethic" is socialism.... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 14, 1977
Tunisia Falters Politically as Bourguiba's Grip Weakens |
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In yet another of the virtually annual reenactments of a classic homecoming ritual, the jet landed at Tunis airport carrying founder-President Habib Bourguiba back from almost three months of medical care in Switzerland.The first such homecoming - in 1956 -was the stuff of storybook legend. For hours on end Bourguiba, atop a white stallion, rode slowly into the capital through an enormous crowd ecstatic that Tunisia was about to become independent after 70 years of French rule.But...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 13, 1977
Lebanon's Ills Unresolved 2 Years After Start of Civil War |
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The Lebanese civil war started two years ago with the machine-gun ambush of a bus by Christian militiamen that killed 27 Palestinians returning from a memorial service for slain comrades.Now, some 60,000 lives later, Lebanon lies in ruins. A fragile peace has been maintained since November in most of the coutry by a Syrian dominated 30,000 man Arab peace force. But the underlying political, economic and social tensions that caused the war remain unresloved and are exacerbated by the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 13, 1977
U.S. Offers to Help Stabilize Worldwide Commodity Prices |
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The Carter administration, in a new policy decision, has made a cautious overture to poor countries that have been demanding joint efforts to stabilize commodity prices.But it continues to take an adamant stand against a pre-arranged "Common Fund" of $3 billion to $6 billion recommended last year by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).The new step proposed by the Carter administration, it was learned, is a willingness to discuss...
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