Word: traded
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Until Carter names a successor, Young will remain at his U.N. post. He will thus complete his one-month tour as Security Council president and probably will lead a group of businessmen on a trade mission to West Africa in mid-September. As for his plans after that, he ruled out running for office in 1980, saying that he intends "to work with President Carter for his re-election...
...Andover, Mass., an agency has been giving free $4,500 Chevettes to buyers of $18,000 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritzes. In San Francisco, a dealer has advertised Dodge vans at a penny above the factory invoice price. In Fairfax, Va., a Chrysler-Plymouth agency offered car buyers a minimum trade-in allowance for anything on four wheels. Said the firm ads: LET'S MAKE A DEAL! ROLL IT IN! TOW IT IN! $800. Nonetheless, salesmen across the country are having more trouble moving big cars these days than at any time since the recession...
Once in Hanoi, the Congressmen were treated with great warmth by Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Nguyen Co Thach, who is pressing for U.S. recognition and an end to Washington's trade embargo against Viet...
DIED. Henry Robbins, 51, distinguished editor in chief of E.P. Dutton's trade book division whose imprint, "A Henry Robbins Book," appears on the current bestseller by John Irving, The World According to Garp; of a heart attack; in a New York City subway station...
...Muggeridge described the Nazi rise as a threat to civilization. He also fellow-traveled to the Soviet Union in 1932 and found Joseph Stalin a dangerous influence. Sounding alarms to the readership of the Guardian had little effect-except on the Muggeridge style. Soon he was deriding his own trade: "The only fun of journalism is that it puts you in contact with the eminent without being under the necessity to admire them or take them seriously. It is the ideal profession for those who find power fascinating and its exercise abhorrent...