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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 5, 1977
Sadat Asks U.S. Backing For a Palestinian State |
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the first of a succession of Arab leaders to confer with President Carter, appealed for U.S. help yesterday in establishing a Palestinian state as the cornerstone of an Arab-Israeli peace agreement.Standing beside Carter in the East Room of the White House - in a welcoming ceremony moved inside because of rain - Sadat declared that "no progress whatsoever can be achieved so long as this (Palestinian) problem remains unsolved."...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 18, 1977
The Black Press: New Archive for An Embattled, Battling Institution |
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When the train carrying President Harry Truman and 60 reporters on a 15-state whistle stop tour during the 1948 campaign stopped at Cheyenne, Wyo., the press hustled off and started walking hehind the presidential motorcade.Suddenly Alice Dunnigan, the only woman and only black with the correspondents that day, was grabbed by a military officer who shoved her toward the bystanders. Even though she was wearing saucer-size identificiation, another reporter had to verify her association with...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 13, 1977
Woodock Unit on MIAs to Leave Today for Vietnam, Laos |
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The presidential commission that leaves today for Hanoi to ask Vietnam about the 2,550 U.S. servicemen still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia also will visit Laos, the White House announced yesterday.Approval from the Laotion government came hours before the five commission members met for 45 minutes with President Carter, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance and others from the State and Defense departments.The White House said efforts to extend the trip into Cambodia have been... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 6, 1977
Africans' Goal at Summit With Arabs: Oil Money |
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Thumping the dusty couch in his appropriately shabby embassy, a delegate from one of Africa's poorest nations gave this terse preview of the international extravaganza to be held here Monday, the first Afro-Arab summit conference: "Of course we'll have political agreements and technical agreements and we'll all support the Palestine cause. But what about the money? The message will be put to the Arabs that it's time for them to go...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 28, 1977
Trusting Rural Town Survives ABM Boom & Bust |
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Being located almost literally in the middle of nowhere, this little town on the plains has been spared some of the crass intrusions of modern American life.If a Langdonite were seized with a Bic Mac Attack, he would have to race 114 miles to the nearest McDonald's Hustler magazine appeared briefly on the town's newstand a few years back, but it is not seen here anymore.There are no industrial smoke-stacks, and too few cars to cause traffic noise or smog;...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 28, 1977
Treasury's $4 Billion ESF Fund |
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When Anthony Solomon, under secretary of the treasury-designate for monetary affairs, recently invited a group in for lunch to discuss international financial problems, he asked how the meal was to be paid for."Don't worry about it," a Treasury Department administrative aide responded, "we'll charge it to the Exchange Stabilization Fund."According to a source, an indignant Solomon retorted: "The...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 20, 1977
Hussein Warns Vance Against Expecting Early Settlement |
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Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance was cautioned today against raising unrealistic expectations for an early settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute. If soaring expectations are not met, he was told by King Hussein of Jordan, the disillusionment could be "unhelpful and dangerous."Hussein's warning was made known in a session with reporters under "background' rules of attribution by a senior U.S. official as Vance's plane...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 14, 1977
Bittersweet Enchantment: Ten Faces of Love |
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The magic of first love, wrote Benjamin Disraeli, is our ignorance that it can ever end. But in Washington, a city of shifting fortunes and many sudden endings, love often has a less illusioned quality - though it is by no means no less magical. It still vivifies and enhances and embitters and enhants. A strange sorcerer.Herewith are several tales of Washington love and its loss and profit. The names and certain identifying details of the principals have been altered to maintain their...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 13, 1977
Curiouser and Curiouser: The Man Who Sees the Wonders |
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CARYL HASKINS is a man of science and science has made him different from your common drudge."There's only one of him on this planet," said a friend when somebody questioned the poisonous ants Haskins keeps in the guest room. House guests are relatively rare.Haskins is a former president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and has been on various advisory commissions to Presidents. He is a newly retired trustee of Yale, member of various...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 12, 1977
Hartack: Happier in a Hong Kong Saddle |
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The American jockey had taken one of the less promising of Hong Kong's usually mediocre race horses, a 40-to-1 shot, and brought home in second in a big race. One of the city's prosperous Chinese businessmen congratulate the jockey on his achievement, but it wasn't what he wanted to hear."Don't ever congratulate me for coming in second," Bill Hartack advised a friend later.After about 4,300 winning mounts,... |
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