Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Assistant Treasury Secretary Eugene T. Rossides gave the Nixon Administration's belated blessing to the means of crackdown proposed by Representative Wright Patman, in a bill designed to tighten the rules on foreign financial transactions. The measure, in its probable final form, will require U.S. banks to keep records of foreign transactions by their customers and to report unusually large withdrawals. Individuals will have to report all transfers of money exceeding $5,000 in or out of the country and open their own records of foreign bank accounts to Government inspection upon request...
...critics believe he will not move in that direction as long as he can count on U.S. support. Besides, there is doubt that many opposition politicians would be willing to join Thieu's regime. Nonetheless, Thieu has made major efforts in his two years in office to tighten up his administration. He has either fired or reassigned every one of his nation's 44 provincial chiefs in an effort to sideline the incompetent or dishonest. While his motive is also to entrench his own men in these vital posts, observers agree that the caliber of his appointees...
...drug authorities have tried for years to get France and Turkey to tighten restrictions on "H," but without much success. Last week the White House announced that President Nixon, concerned by estimates that 180,000 Americans are now addicted to heroin, has made the problem a matter of high-level diplomacy. International heroin control, as one Administration official put it, "is now a foreign policy objective of the United States...
...charity tosses and 30 seconds later stole a pass dribbled the length of the court. and scored. Stan Mark hit a 20-footer and a minute later Harvard's James Brown blocked a shot and threw the ball to Wilkinson under the Dartmouth hoop. Wilkinson scored to tighten the game at 83-81 Dartmouth...