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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then fanned out to appeal to anyone who could help: business executives, newsmen, friends of Senators. The pitch was always the same: America needs the energy bill to stop the decline of the dollar and convince foreign nations that the U.S. can put its own house in order...
...committee still wanted to hear from Trafficante. Next day, he showed up, nattily attired in a gray pinstripe suit, but refused at first to testify. Finally, handed a court order granting him immunity from prosecution for anything he might say, and faced with contempt if he did not talk, Trafficante became one of the few top-level mobsters ever to answer a congressional committee's questions...
...should join the trend toward more managed exchange rates, something of a compromise between fixed and floating rates. World central banks would have to cooperate closely, buying and selling currencies in order to keep the rates within certain ranges. Former Under Secretary of the Treasury Robert V. Roosa says that a first step toward this arrangement would be to set up "reasonable ranges of value for the three key currencies - the dollar, mark and yen." Other currencies would quickly fall into line behind the big three. The IMF could monitor national economic activity and recommend when currency values should...
...soon, since the government had announced plans to take over her store. The large central market seemed adequately stocked with fresh vegetables, soap, cigarettes, pots and pans, cotton cloth and even finely wrought silver works -all still being sold by private merchants. While virtually all women obey a government order to wear the traditional Lao skirt, called the sin, some top them with T shirts promoting ADIDAS or "U.C.L.A. BRUINS...
Snags immediately developed. B.R.A.C. Chief Fred Kroll refused to heed Carter's order until he got a court-backed guarantee that no reprisals would be taken against union members by the railroads. Then a U.S. district court in Washington postponed a decision on a rail industry call for a no-strike injunction against the union; the court questioned whether the Railway Act empowers the White House to halt a strike already in progress...