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...involved. Nonetheless, it caused the most violent spasm yet in the seemingly endless agonies of the pound. The story, front-paged on Oct. 24 by London's Sunday Times, implied that the U.S. Government and the International Monetary Fund would insist that the British government let the pound sink to $1.50 against the U.S. dollar as a condition for a desperately needed $3.9 billion IMF loan to Britain. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, IMF officials and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey all protested that no detailed conditions for the loan have yet been negotiated. Even...
...really require is the market to not sink," he said...
When Gerald Ford was cleared last week of allegations that he had mishandled congressional campaign funds, the relieved President was moved to express hope that now the campaign would rise "to a level befitting the American people." But the campaign level seems more likely to sink than to soar. With only two weeks remaining, millions of voters are still struggling to make up their minds, and Ford and Jimmy Carter have been trying to win them by focusing with increasing acerbity on each other's character and competence...
Uchisar, Cappadocia, July 24--A darling kitten with a black nose is rubbing himself on my ankles as I write. I'm lunching in the kitchen of the local cafe. Not much of a kitchen really--it has only a sink, a gas kahve cooker [the so-called Turkish coffee which the Turks generally forego in favor of tea], and an impish and affectionate Turk to go with it, four cracked plaster walls, and a swarm of flies. But boy, am I happy. [The kitten with the black nose is now pulling at my sandal strap.] I came here absolutely...
...appeals are completed and the first execution could happen in his state. Like many in the U.S., Texas death row prisoners had seemed almost not to believe that cap ital punishment would really return. With last week's final Supreme Court decision, reality has begun to sink in. The long-expected individual appeals will now start inundating Hill's office...