Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to the feverish activity in Geneva, summit preparations went on almost serenely in Vienna, where the treaty is to be signed at 1 p.m. in the Redoutensaal, a gold-and-white ballroom in the sprawling Hofburg, the Habsburg dynasty's Imperial Palace. Vienna officials were taking the summit preparations very much in stride. The Redoutensaal was occupied last week by negotiators at the interminable M.B.F.R. talks on troop reductions in Central Europe. Not until this week could workmen begin erecting bleacher seats for the 1,200 journalists expected to witness the SALT II signing. That the agreement...
Even the old Air America routes in Laos have been partly taken over by Soviet pilots in Antonov-12s. There have been reports that some of the pilots supplement their income by smuggling Laotian gold into Viet Nam. Observed a cynical military attaché: "Without the Russians it would be almost impossible to move around the greater Vietnamese Empire, er, excuse me, the Greater Indochina Co-Prosperity Sphere...
Beckett is more than lucky in this revival at off-Broadway's Public Theater; he is blessed. Entrusting a play to Irene Worth is like investing in the Krugerrand. She is pure gold. Voskovec, in what amounts to a crawl-on part, is admirable. As for Andrei Serban, the ebullient Rumanian-born director-improvisationist, he has had the incredible tact not to tamper with the text. For which relief, much thanks...
...Good as Gold, Heller...
...rise in precious metals is also powered by a lack of supply. The U.S. Government sells gold to support the dollar; but since the greenback has strengthened this year, traders figure that Washington might call off its gold auctions. Last month the Treasury cut its monthly offerings in half to 750,000 ounces, and the International Monetary Fund has reduced its monthly sales slightly, to 444,000 ounces. "Combine those two, and you take out almost 20% of supply," says a U.S. gold analyst.Soviets, who earned $2.6 billion the sale of 13.8 million ounces of gold through the Wozchod Bank...