Word: planned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American bankers warned U.S. Government officials that if the policy went no further than indicated by the reports they had read, the dollar would continue to fall. Immediately after the IMF meeting, Blumenthal assigned Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon to meet secretly with Fed Chairman G. William Miller and plan what to do in a "worst case" of threatened dollar collapse. Solomon, Miller and two aides met regularly through October but kept their planning secret: Washington was still hoping that Stage II would give the markets confidence...
...Saturday, Oct. 28, Blumenthal, Solomon, Miller, Anti-Inflation Czar Alfred Kahn and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze agreed on the main elements of the dollar-rescue plan during a four-hour meeting in Blumenthal's conference room. Most of the ideas were first voiced by Solomon, but they were scarcely new; non-Government people had been urging them for months. The group decided to get Carter's approval that night...
...President, returning from a grueling campaign swing through four New England states, took a helicopter to the White House rather than going to Camp David as planned; reporters speculated that he was meeting secretly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Just before 10 p.m., the economic advisers slipped into the White House by side doors. Solomon had excused himself from a dinner party at which he was the host by saying he had to meet some steel-industry officials. In a one-hour meeting with Carter in the basement map room, where they were least likely to be observed, they cemented...
...decade ago, he sees them as "very much alive because our survival programs are alive." He has been studying at the University of California for a doctorate in the history of social consciousness, and he looks forward to teaching at the Panther school and participating in local politics. "I plan to work in Oakland," he says. "I love Oakland...
...report, consisting of depositions from many of the principals involved in the scandal, focuses on a plan to undermine the Daily Mail and other opposition newspapers by secretly subsidizing a new, pro-government tabloid, the Johannesburg Citizen. In 1976, says the report, the department provided a fertilizer company directed by Businessman Louis Luyt, 46, with $15 million in government cash -a direct violation of treasury regula tions. In exchange, Luyt testified, he pledged as publisher of the Citizen to support editorially the government's apartheid policies. But, Luyt said, he soon tired of Eschel Rhoodie's incessant efforts...