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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 17, 1977
Lawyer Christopher |
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In the shifting world of California politics, there is no such thing as a self-perpetuating political machine. But the 190 attorneys who fill the wood-paneled and glass-walled offices of O'Melveny & Myers may be the next closest thing.Partner Warren Christopher, under secretary of state-designate in the Carter administration, has helped build the reputation of O'Melveny & Myers as a politically influential corporate firm.Christopher has... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 18, 1977
Sadat Hopeful on Peace |
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As President Carter and Prime Minister Menahem Begin prepared to complete their review of Israel's peace proposals, all indications last night were that the United States will endorse them as a major step forward.Carter and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat both expressed optimism yesterday about advancing from the Carter-Begin exchanges here to a new Sadat-Begin meeting in Egypt, in about a week.In completing the review with Begin, Carter was expected to raise what Sadat... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 11, 1977
Argentines Can - And Do - Criticize Economy Out Loud |
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Despite tight restrictions on press and public criticism of Argentina's military junta, at least one Cabinet member, Economy Minister Joe Martinez de Hoz, has become fair game for critics ranging from the media to the man in the street.Even such widely differing publications as clandestine guerrilla newsletters and military mouthpieces are participating in the campaign. The economy minister, whose long, thin face and protruding ears are a caricaturists' delight, has...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 7, 1977
A Nation Comes to Terms on Wheat |
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In late 1975, the Continental Grain Co. of New York City showed the government of the African nation of Zaire that it meant business in its long effort to collect a $16 million debt for wheat.Continental held back its monthly wheat shipment to Zaire's only large flour mill, a facility 70 per cent-owned by the American grain company.According to a letter from U.S. agricultural attached John A. Williams in Kinshasa, the rerouting of the wheat was "to help the GOZ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 22, 1977
A Gap in the Inner Circle |
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The departure of Bert Lance from the Carter administration leaves a 6-foot, 4-inch gap in both the top command of the government and the inner circle of Jimmy Carter's friends.There may have officials with more influence on vital decisions in a wide range of fields than the director of the Office of Management and Budget. But few such individuals come to mind.And there may have been men with whom the President found it easier to relax and discuss anything from his tennis...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 31, 1977
Just 30 years after Jackie Robinson first pushed |
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Just 30 years after Jackie Robinson first pushed open the big-league doors to his race, baseball is threatening to slam them shut again. This time it is the heavy oaken doors of Cooperstown that may clang shut - perhaps forever - on the dozens of great black players who, unluckier than Robinson, were never allowed to play in the white major leagues.The special committee headed by ex-Giant great Monte Irvin and all-time Dodger favorite Roy Campanella, both Negro League veterans themselves,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 26, 1977
The Parking Proviso |
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FUTURISTS ARE now predicting that the world will end with neither a whimper nor a bang. It will end when enough people can't find a parking place. In Washington they are voting stern parking measures for their streets, which could change the American way of life.In the past, commuters from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs have driven into the city and have parked their cars all day in front of someone's house, and then at the end of the day driven them back to the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 23, 1977
Saudis Call Oil Billions 'Temporary Liquidity' |
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Just how rich is Saudi Arabia? Not very, according to the kingdom's two top money managers.Forget the tens of billions of dollars in cash and gold that this country holds abroad, they recently told a group of visiting Americans. Never mind an annual revenue surplus of at least $15 billion more. Leave aside the daily oil income of some $115 million in the country of only 7 million residents.In the view of Mohammed Ali Abul Khail, the minister of finance and economy, and...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 1, 1977
A Canadian Realty Invasion |
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When Olympic & York Developments, Ltd., of Toronto laid out $350 million a few weeks ago to buy nine skyscrapers in New York City, it became overnight the largest Canadian investor in American real esate.The deal - which included $50 million in cash - makes Olympia & York one of the largest foreign landlords in te United States, with giants like International Telephone & Telegraph, American Brands, and Harper & Row under its roof.Olympia...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 27, 1977
Carter, After Hussein Talks, Wary on Mideast Conference |
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President Carter, after two days of meetings with Jordan's King Hussein said yesterday it would be better not to have a Geneva conference on the Middle East "unless we see some strong possibility for substantial achievements" in advance.Carter's statement to reporters, after saying goodbye to Hussein at the driveaway behind the Oval Office, was the most cautious he has made about his drive for early progress toward a Middle East peace...
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