Word: swap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rumanian gasoline in December. Most of his deals are financed by U.S. banks and the Government's Export-Import Bank. Because of the Communists' shortage of hard currency, Ross thinks that there is a better future in barter arrangements. He is trying to put together a swap between Scott Research, an American producer of automobile antipollution equipment, and the Rumanian auto industry, which must equip its U.S.-bound vehicles to meet 1975 emission standards...
...trained more than 5,000 Latin Americans, Europeans, Africans and North Americans in politics and terror. But most contacts are not for the purpose of training and underground activity. Often, says one intelligence expert in Europe, they merely "get together from time to time over a joint to swap experiences and ideas." A diplomat in Beirut who has been keeping watch on international guerrillas there estimates that they number no more than 200 altogether and that "the links are more of a romantic nature than anything else...
...McGovern, with wide sky-blue eyes, clean good looks and tousled hair, looks younger than her 50 years. She met George in their native South Dakota after besting him in a high school debating match. After 28 years of marriage, the debates go on and they swap points of views across the dinner table. She thinks their discussions may be changing his mind on total amnesty for Viet Nam draft evaders. "I feel that young men, on being granted amnesty, should be required to give a couple of years' service to the country, as conscientious objectors are doing...
...PRICE OF GOLD in European free markets reached a two-year high of $42.40. The rise reflected a growing feeling abroad that the U.S. Treasury is perilously short of backing for its pledge to swap dollars for gold at the rate of $35 per ounce, and thus may have to raise the official gold price, which would devalue the dollar. European central bankers are moving to liquidate their dollar holdings. Two weeks ago the Swiss Central Bank sold $50 million in dollars to an unnamed source for gold...
...Force, Army and civilian men with no females. We do get a chance to ogle the Reeve-Aleutian Airline stewardesses twice weekly. The Gan Island weather, fishing, golf, tennis and volleyball sound like a little bit of heaven compared with Shemya. If any RAF troops would care to swap assignments, I'm sure we could find volunteers...