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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 24, 1977
Philippine authorities identified the gunman kill |
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Philippine authorities identified the gunman killed by hostages he held in a bank at Subic Bay naval base as Phil Brillo, 30, who has worked seven years at the U.S. base. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 23, 1977
Dollar Rises After Promise Of U.S. Backing |
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The U.S. dollar recovered on European and Japanese money markets yesterday after President Carter announced short-term measures to improve the U.S. balance of payments and gave personal assurance that Washington will help stablize the world's volatile money markets.After months of steady decline against the West German mark and Japanese yen, and successive new lows against the Swiss franc, the dollar showed immediate signs of a recovery following Carter's statement....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 3, 1977
Accord Eludes Arabs Opposed To Sadat Moves |
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Arab leaders out to block Anwar Sadat's peace initiative with Israel condemned the Egyptian president today but failed to agree on a joint plan of action After eight hours of talks at the ornate People's Palace, Millers representing Algeria, Iraq, Libya, South Yemen, Syria and rival Palestinian organizations have yet to walk out concrete steps against Egypt.The heads of delegations were scheduled to meet again Saturday morning in a third day of efforts to hammer...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 16, 1977
Somoza's Nicaragua |
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Two weeks ago, the first four pages of this capital's only morning newspaper were taken up with pictures of Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza receiving the credentials of several new ambassadors.The president owns the newspaper.When Nicaragua's economy was devastated by a 1972 earthquake, one of the local companies that prospered during reconstruction, which was financed by hundreds of millions of outside aid dollars, was the country's one and...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 17, 1977
Witnesses Say They Fell For Phony Development |
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Montgomery County Circuit Court jury heard testimony yesterday alleging that Paul A. Toneman pedled an empty dream to gullible investors who dumped thousands of dollars into an Ocean City new town that never built.A Columbi psychiatrist testified that Toneman, a 60-year-old Silver Spring public relation's man - who had no recognizable wealth or line of credit - persuaded him and his friends to join a "billion dollar scheme" that required only a...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 1, 1977
Tokyo sources reported yesterday that government |
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Tokyo sources reported yesterday that government and Bank of Japan officials have reached basic agreement to announce a cut in the bank's official discount rate to 4.25 per cent from the present 5 per cent next week, the newspaper Yomiuri said.The newspaper said the cut is expected to be announced Sept. 6 as part of a package of measures to stimulate the economy, including a large supplementary budget for this fiscal year. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 3, 1977
The International Monetary Fund yesterday auction |
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The International Monetary Fund yesterday auctioned 524,400 ounces of gold at an average price of $146.51 to raise approximately $55.6 million for the benefit of developing countries.This was the seventh gold auction the IMF has held and the first under a new schedule of auctions on the first Wednesday of each month.The international agency said that successful bids ranged from $145.55 to $418 an ounce. Bids were received for a total of 1,632,800 ounces.The IMF has raised about...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 7, 1977
Stranded Tourists Leave Tanzania on Chartered Airliner |
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The U.S. State Department yesterday arranged to airlift more than 150 American tourists stranded in northern Tanzania to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.Along with hundreds of tourists of other nationalities, they had been detained for three days by Tanzanian authorities, but said they were well cared for in luxury hotels, special correspondent Roger Mann reported.The tourists, almost all clients of two New York travel agencies, were unwitting victims of growing political tension between...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 18, 1977
Continuing Intrigue Over Arthur Burns |
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Lagging hopes of business that President Carter might yet avert another wound to the economy were heightened a little Nov. 14 when Rosalynn Carter lunched privately with Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.Although her viewpoint is wrapped in mystery, nobody denies the First Lady's status as a serious adviser to the President. Thus, advocates of Burns took hope that the Monday luncheon covered more than its announced subject of...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 23, 1977
This fall, the business of buying and selling aca |
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This fall, the business of buying and selling academic term papers is booming.A college student, under the gun to produce a term paper, can pick one out of a catalog list of 6,000 topics.For delivery within a few days, the student pay around $3 a page, or $40 for the average-lenght paper. And, the whole thing can be paid for through a bank credit card.Although a number of states have banned the sale of term papers within their own boundaries, it's open game for an...
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