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...Governor, Butcher resigned as chairman of the United American Bank of Knoxville, which is the largest bank in the chain. He owns one-fourth of the bank's stock. For the first six months of this year, U.A.B.'s earnings were down by 52%, but the bank nonetheless increased its dividend from 160 to 180 a share. Other bankers suggest that the move was chiefly intended to increase Butcher's income, but he says he had nothing to do with...
...American embassy in Taipei would be turned into a nongovernmental institution that could still perform all the functions of an embassy. The U.S. needs to watch out for $7.5 billion in annual trade with Taiwan and $500 million in American investments there (Taiwan is the U.S.'s twelfth largest trading partner; Communist China is the 23rd). In addition, the Administration is determined to provide for the maintenance of Taiwan's 500,000-man armed forces...
...charter is to build up a military bloc on Israel's northeastern border that would be strong enough to worry the Israelis into making concessions, but not threatening enough to provoke an Israeli pre-emptive strike. Iraq is the Arab world's second largest oil producer (after Saudi Arabia) and has a large, Soviet-supplied army. It would like to station some of its forces in Syrian territory opposite the Israeli border, but after their years of quarreling with the Iraqis, the Syrians are reluctant to accept such an arrangement. According to Iraqi sources, the new agreement will merely permit...
DIED. W. Garfield Weston, 80, Canadian "Barnum of Bread" who parlayed a small family business, George Weston, Ltd., into the world's largest bakery and one of the world's biggest international grocery chains; in Toronto...
...producing more meat less expensively, and we will have the opportunity for much more export." He is crossing U.S. breeds with European stock to produce "exotic" cattle that grow fatter faster or produce more milk. This is done by artificial insemination. Says Garst: "We have one of the largest accumulations of exotic semen from Europe...