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...sort of week that served perfectly to concentrate the minds of bankers and finance ministers. The occasion was the 37th annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Toronto, and while none of the moneymen faced the immediate prospect of hanging, a few must have wondered whether they were in for a bit of financial drawing and quartering. For, as unsubstantiated rumors of everything from a cash squeeze on a major West German bank to a possible pending loan default by Bolivia swirled about, the somber-spirited financiers found themselves wrestling with the difficult task...
Coppola's execution was the first in the U.S. since March 1981 and only the fifth since the 1976 Supreme Court decision declaring capital punishment constitutional. More than 1,000 prisoners now wait on death row. Two weeks ago, New Jersey became the 37th state to adopt a death penalty. Due to the appeals process, few inmates are expected to be executed soon. But by late 1984, experts predict, there may be a surge in executions. By then, perhaps the Supreme Court will have worked out a more seemly system for deciding the many last-minute appeals...
...timing was both fitting and macabre. Last Thursday the U.S. detonated a nuclear bomb in the 20-to 150-kiloton class under the desert of Yucca Flat, Nev. The test blast was the eleventh this year, but it came on the eve of the 37th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and on the day the U.S. grass-roots nuclear-freeze movement faced its first real test of political strength...
NIXON: Oh, you want the [sound] level, don't you? Yes. [turns very somber] Good evening, this is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shape the history of our nation . . . Need any more? Each time I have done so to discuss with you some matter that I believe affected the nation al interest...
Richard M. Nixon, 69, 37th President U.S. Resigned Aug. 9, 1974, rather face almost certain impeachment House of Representatives and from office in Senate trial. Pardoned his successor, Gerald Ford, on Sept. 8, 1974. Writes books, travels. Lives in Saddle...