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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 13, 1977
On Eve of Speech, Latins Wonder If Carter Will Bolster Rights Policy or Let It Fade |
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Encouraged by President Carter's opposition to legislation barring U.S. approval of multilateral loans to human-rights violators, Latin America's military governments are awaiting an indication of where the-administration's rights policy is headed.At the same time, human-rights activists here are wondering if the Carter government is backing down on its initial strong rights stand.Both groups are hoping, with similar apprehension, that...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 17, 1977
Rights Issue Gives Helsinki Review Unexpected Role |
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A modern concrete and tinted-glass building in rising on the banks of the Sava River here that will soon be the arena either for a monumental clash between East and West over human rights or for a more quiet effort to make progress wherever it can be found.Beginning June 15, the capital of Yugoslavia will be the site of a 35-nation conference aimed at reviewing how well those countries have put into effect the various provision of the Helsinki Agreement on European Security and Cooperation...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 16, 1977
Korean Charity Fund Abuse Cited |
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Two officials of the tax-exempt, Washington-based Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation (KCFF) have petitioned the Justice Department for a court-appointed trustee to manage the charitable foundation's affairs and stop "further abuses" of its money.Charles M. Fairchild and David Martin of the governing board of KCFF charged that the foundation's president, Bo Hi Pak, used falsified board minutes to borrow $1 million in KCFF's...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 29, 1977
Land Yields Hard Harvet |
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Bought by his grandfather, worked by his two uncles, foreclosed on by the bank, and bought at auction on the Fauquier County Courthouse steps by his father, the 345-acre Clayton Trumbo farm near Calverton has been in the family since 1915.Located about 50 miles from Washington, it has been a dairy farm. Planting. harvesting, feeding and caring for the animals has been the center of Trumbo's life - that of his wife Betty Ruth, daughter Susan, and son Douglas for 28 years....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 20, 1977
Isreal Asks: Where Do We Go From Here? |
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Behind all the emotion and excitement that has built up here over the arrival of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Isreal today, there is also an atmosphere of apprehension and a realization that the politics of the Middle East may never be the same again.Sadat is not coming to negotiate a separate peace with Israel and Israel will not press him to do so. Prime Minister Menahem Begin had said that the positions he presents to Sadat "will not necessarily be new...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 30, 1977
The Chaos Of College Curricula |
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THE SAFEST THING one can say about a college diploma today is not that it signifies some commonly accepted educational achievement, but rather that its holder probably has been around the campus for about four years. Beyond that, everything is uncertain.This is because on the vast majority of campuses, required courses have been dropped, and the ones which remain reveal a staggering incoherence of purpose, often expressed as "distribution requirements."Under...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 1, 1977
DeSales Dyson, Social Work Chief |
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DeSales W. Dyson, 55, former director of social work at Maryland's Crownsville State Hospital, was found dead Friday at his Northeast Washington apartment. His death was attributed to a heart attack.Mr. Dyson had been on the social work staff of the Maryland psychiatric institution since 1950 and was director of social work from 1968 to 1976, when he retired because of illness.Born in Washington, he graduated form Dunbar High School. He received a bachelor's...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 24, 1977
Fairfax Attorney Agrees To Pay $390,000 to Ali |
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A Fairfax County attorney yesterday agreed to pay world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali $390,000 to settle a claim by Ali that the lawyer misused and spent some of Ali's funds last year. The out-of-court settlement, reached by attorney, Spiros Anthony, states that Anthony must pay Ali the $390,000 at the rate of $20,000 a month. If Anthony misses one payment, the total amount will increase to $625,000, less payments already made, according to the agreement.The...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 24, 1977
Stockyard Kid |
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IT WAS DURING the summer of 1933 and the two summers that followed that I learned about the minimum wage law, first saw hogs and cattle being slaughtered, formulated Hume's Law of Falling Bodies, and learned to spell Bydgoscz.I also visited my first bar - which was called a tavern in those days, which was right after FDR repealed Prohibition. In those same summeres I lost an indeterminate number of carloads of pork bellies, beef liver and who knows what else. I also walked...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 29, 1977
Tennis in Paris: Fun City It's Not |
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Harold Solomon went up to the woman who arranges transportation for players at the French Open tennis championships and, summoning up his best Gallic intonation, asked for a car to take him and his girl friend back to their hotel: "S'il vous plait, Madame. Un chauffeur. Pour Sofitel, Pour deux."Solomon grinned at a fellow American standing nearby. "That's about the extent of my French," he said....
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