Word: bargain
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Controversy Surrounding the Kennedy School of Government's Widely-Publicized 'Grand Bargain' Plan for Soviet Economic Reform Rages On In the Wake of the Dramatic Political Upheaval...
...past several months, debate about the Soviet Union's transition to a market economy has focused on a plan claiming to offer the United States a "Grand Bargain." The brainchild of former Kennedy School of Government Dean Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, the ambitious plan was jointly conceived by a team of Soviet economists and Kennedy School policy experts...
...never recognized that annexation to begin with. But when and under what conditions -- if ever -- should foreign nations recognize the independence of Ukraine, or Kazakhstan, or Moldavia? The question of aid is also sticky. The revolution has prompted some renewed interest, at least in the U.S., in the Grand Bargain, a trade of massive Western economic aid for thoroughgoing Soviet reform creating a true market economy. In one way, the upheaval has increased prospects for such a deal. It broke, presumably completely and for good, the power of doctrinaire communists who opposed capitalism out of Marxist principle and used their...
...Palestinians jailed for their intifadeh activities, Israel is willing, even eager, to comply with demands for the release of the 375 Shi'ites and other prisoners. The sticking point is seven Israeli prisoners, captured over the years in Lebanon, who Israel insists must be released as part of the bargain. It is not known, however, how many of the seven are dead. Last week Hizballah announced that at least one, Ron Arad, is alive. Israel is demanding a strict accounting of the seven -- confirmed by the International Red Cross -- before any deal is made. If Islamic Jihad agrees to those...
...convictions, which required B.C.C.I. to forfeit $15 million of its money-laundering profits, Blum and former customs commissioner William von Raab elaborated on their earlier descriptions of the Justice Department's Florida case as a law-enforcement debacle. "I was personally | infuriated," Blum said. He argued that the plea bargain gave B.C.C.I. immunity from future prosecutions based on evidence in the case -- a charge that Justice disputes. Von Raab, sporting a yellow handkerchief that drooped flower-like from his breast pocket, called the settlement "a shameless agreement" and "a disaster in terms of the punishment that should have been meted...