Editorial on the Palestinian play in the Mideast crisis
The piece argues Palestinians could weaponize recognition of Israel to erode Western support for hard line Israeli policy. It notes recent signals from Arafat, Vienna meetings, and UN discussions, with Washington denying policy change yet tensions growing in the US Israel relationship. It warns Israel fears a Palestinian state and the regional consequences.
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Mideast
Israel
Jerusalem
Vienna
Yasir Arafat
Austria
Bruno Kreisky
West Germany
Willy Brandt
United Nations
Washington
Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
U.N
United States
P.L.O
Predictions of double digit prime rate cited in 1970s context
AP analyst notes that prime lending rate reached 12 percent during 1973 74 recession and again near 12 percent in 1976 77 while inflation and deficits argued over. The piece links high rates to slower growth and calls for fiscal restraint. It includes a Martin Luther King Jr. quote and a short quiz with city state examples.
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John Cunniff
New York
United States
Federal Reserve
General Motors
Federal Reserve Board
Federal
Fed
Today in History August 20 leads with global events
On August 20 events include Vitus Bering's discovery in 1791, Washington crossing to Manhattan in 1776, the Dnieper Dam destruction in 1941, the East Berlin Wall construction in 1961, the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, V. V. Giri's 1969 Indian presidency, Rockefeller's 1974 VP nomination, and a 1979 El Al attack anniversary. A factual telegraphic recap of milestones.
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Associated Press
Alaska
Vitus Bering
George Washington
Brooklyn
N.Y
East River
Manhattan
Dnieper
Ukraine
East
West Berlin
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
V. V. Giri
India
Indira Gandhi
Gerald Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
el al Airlines
London
Efforts to delay Estes trial chronicled in 1962 coverage
A compilation of Estes case proceedings from October 1962 through March 1963 recounts juror selection, repeated defense delays, forged signatures on a tank mortgage, a missing lease original, and witness testimony. Estes was convicted in November 1962 and faced multiple related trials and appeals, with later federal counts and a Pecos hospital dispute noted.
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Estes
B.W. Stokey
Dallas
C.I.T
T.J. Wilson
Pecos
Harold Orr
Wilson
Billie Sol
Orr
Dunagan
Cofer
Sarah Hughes
Commodity Credit Corporation
Daily News
el Paso
Thomason
Glenn Lester
Estes and Commercial Solvents
Lester-Stern Fertilizer Company
Pecos ‘‘Hospital
Billie Sol Estes
Pecos Daily News
Tyler
Alexander
McSpadden
Skeleton in Browns closet fuels debate over SALT I
Washington columnist Jack Anderson outlines allegations that Defense Secretary Harold Brown and aides manipulated evidence to hide a $2 billion Air Force C-5A overrun. The piece traces events from 1968 to 1972, noting doctored figures and withheld data, ending with a critique of Brown and a call to alert readers to government waste.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Defense
Harold Brown
Brown
Pentagon
Air Force
A. Ernest Fitgerald
Georgia Lockheed
Donald L. Crow
House and Appropriations Committee
Fitzgerald
Joint Economic Committee
CEA
Townsend Hopes
Fitzgrald
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Congress
General Accounting Office
GAO
Wich
Bran
Air Forc
DC. 9
Thomas H. Nielsen
Proxmire
Bown
Nielsen
Informaon
Tme
Brow
U.S
Commission
Pratt and Whitney Corp
West Virginia
Navy
P.O
Washington, D.C
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