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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 7, 1977
Hill Bars Softening On Rights |
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President Carter sought to soften his position on human rights in international lending organizations but Congress refused yesterday to go along.The House rejected a written appeal by the President against adopting "an overly rigid approach" to legislation that would make a country's human rights record a condition of its eligibility for loans.Rep. Herman Badillo (D-N.Y.) said the moderating language sought by Carter would "signal to all... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 24, 1977
A Zig-Zag Down to Panama |
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WE HAD enough worries that dark and eerie night off the coast of Cuba without the big searchlight beaming from shore.It flashed back and forth across the water as we passed about five miles from Point Maisi, the easternmost end of Cuba, piercing the dark with a sinister white shaft that reflected off the sails of our yawl Felicity.Theing stopped by gunboats and detained on the coast of Cubaing stopped by gunboats and detained on the coast of Cuba, and we have since met people who have...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 22, 1977
Scott Saw Bass Were GoldFish |
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Ten years ago bass angling was a sport for good-natured laiterers and the unemployed, a harmless way to kill a day and maybe bring home some fresh fish for supper.Then came Ray Scott, a smooth-talking good old boy from Alabama with his finger on the pulse of the about-to-be-born-again South.Scott was doing all right selling life insurance in Montgomery for Mutual of New York. But while he was boosting MONY he was smelling money in the largemouth bass holes of the deep South.He...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 13, 1977
Sadat Assails Carter View On Borders |
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President Anwar Sadat of Eyypt opened the Palestine National Council meeting tonight with a strongly worded rejection of President Jimmy Carter's concept of defensible borders of Israel.Sadat did not mention Carter by name, but he told the applauding Palestinians that "I want all to listen on this occasion. We shall not cede one inch of our land. The national land is not open to bargaining."It was the first authoritative Egyptian response to...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 27, 1977
THE ROAD TO WASHINGTON: EIGHT BLACKS TRACE THEIR HERITAGE |
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THE BESTSELLING book Roots , Alex Haley's historical reconstruction of how his family came from relative freedom in Africa to certain slavery in America, and then from slavery to relative freedom today, has spurred many black Americans to think about and search out their own roots.A few years ago most blacks were either ashamed or afraid to tell the story of their struggle for survival against enormous odds. Their reticence derived in part from the frequent ugliness of their...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 10, 1977
Venezuelan Finance Minister Hector Hurtado yester |
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Venezuelan Finance Minister Hector Hurtado yesterday announced conclusion of an agreement with five international banks to float a $100 million bond issue to finance the start of his country's planned $40 billion development program.Hurtado said the bond issue was at 8 per cent payable in 1984. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 2, 1977
Famed Photographic Studio Closes Here |
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Formal and imposing, the portrait photographs of American Presidents are arrayed across Harris & Ewing's doorway: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolige . . .Harris & Ewing - photographers of the powerful, the rich and then eminent for 72 years - had captured them all in dignified poses worthy of their stature.Yesterday, the photo studio, once frequented by Presidents, Supreme Court justices and...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 21, 1977
Vietnam Believed to Have Billions in Aid Promises |
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Vietnam has received commitments for perhaps more than $6 billion in economic aid over the past two years, according to some analysts.Almost $3 billion could come from the Soviet Union. The United States, which tried to block a Communist takeover of Vietnam for 25 years, will be providing aid indirectly through various international organizations.Hanoi's record in seeking out and obtaining financial support over the past two years has been remarkable. None of the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 31, 1977
Hussein to Tell Carter Israeli Imperil Talks |
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The uproar that has spun out of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's wounded reactions to President Carter's televised comments on the Palestinian question is a case of polarized media diplomacy colliding with the fine shadings, and the subtle dissembling, of professional diplomacy.This incident, which may require a Carter visit to Egypt to soothe ruffled feelings, may go down in the annuals as a prime example of too-swift, too-simplified, public diplomacy.On its...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 11, 1977
U.S. Shelves Hopes for Moving in Tano |
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The Carter administration has abandoned hope for moving in tandem with the Soviet Union toward a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace settlement any time in the near future, officials now privately acknowledge.As a result of the audacious diplomatic blitz conducted by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the United States has shifted instead to a three-stage policy of supporting overlapping country-by-country peace accords. Only in the final stage, if that point is ever reached, would American and... |
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