Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, a subdued hope of movement surrounded the news last week that the U.S. had consented to repay $567 million in frozen Iranian assets. The agreement was reached after two days of negotiations between State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer and a senior adviser to Iran's President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The two met in the Hague, site of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal that was set up as part of the 1981 deal that freed the 62 American embassy hostages in Tehran. Both sides agreed that Iran will be paid most of the balance remaining...
...deal had been reviewed in the White House by the National Security Council and approved by George Bush, who had been urging the State Department to press ahead in the complicated claims-settlement process. At his press conference last week the President admitted to a hope that the agreement would eliminate a further obstacle to cooperation by the Iranians. "I'd like to get this underbrush cleaned out now," he said. "I hope they will do what they can to influence those who hold these hostages...
...next "signal" from the U.S. may be an agreement to pay compensation to survivors of those killed in the Iran Air passenger plane shot down in July 1988 by the U.S.S. Vincennes. The U.S. has already begun paying families of non-Iranian passengers, but compensation to Iranians, who account for most of the 290 people aboard, has been held up by a lawsuit the Tehran government is pursuing against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice...
...Senate to include such a reduction in next year's budget bill, Bush abandoned the idea last week. The President's backdown could provide the basis for a compromise that would undo $16 billion in across-the-board spending cutbacks that went into effect last month. If no agreement can be reached, $8.1 billion will be slashed from popular programs such as Medicare and college loans...
...Those who continue the struggle have been driven to such expedients as eliminating bylines on drug stories. For five months several news outlets ran the same coverage, word for word, on drug-related topics, so no one organization would be the focus of wrath. But the agreement fell apart under competitive pressures and the feeling of some reporters that others failed to contribute their fair share. In any case, it is a virtual impossibility for reporters to work in complete anonymity, and most Colombian journalists simply shoulder the risk. Says Enrique Santos Calderon, an El Tiempo columnist and Sunday editor...