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When is a deal not a deal? Buyout agreements are getting trickier because they now bristle with escape hatches. Last month Donald Trump balked on his $365 million pact to buy Eastern's shuttle when the airline sought bankruptcy protections. Brandishing a clause that allowed him to dicker on the price if shuttle business fell off before his deal closed, Trump pressured Eastern into including four more airliners for the same price. The concession was worth up to $26 million...
Thus at 5:30 on a recent morning, Willey and a partner, E.D.F. lawyer Tom Graff, headed from their Oakland office down Highway 5 to dicker with irrigation districts on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. An odd pair: Willey, somewhere over 6 ft. 5 in. in his cowboy boots, lean, green-eyed and with an easy grin; Graff, short and with a squared-off boxer's nose, but unpugnacious. As environmentalists go, they speak softly and strangely: California water distribution suffers under misguided socialist precepts, they argue. What it needs is fewer bureaucrats and more capitalists. Turn...
...triage system, sometimes choosing to block an eviction before untangling a Social Security foul-up, or rushing to counter an immigration problem while other clients wait for assistance in getting welfare benefits. "We just don't have the money or the staffing to do it all," says Attorney Morton Dicker...
...indicated a willingness to amend the ABM treaty to tighten some of its imprecisions and extend the period of notice each side would have to give before withdrawing from the treaty. This willingness to dicker with Moscow over the ABM treaty is being interpreted as a sweetener, a hint to the Soviets that the U.S. may be prepared to agree later to a longterm restriction of SDI. So it may be. But the fact remains that the U.S. is still playing hard to get on SDI. The Administration had long since reaffirmed a policy of abiding by the ABM treaty...
...official, "because there would not be another indispensable Russian in Washington." Agrees Sovietologist Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "Dobrynin did not want another Dobrynin." The bigger question, of course, is what Dubinin's appointment portends for U.S.-Soviet relations. As Washington and the Kremlin dicker over when--and whether--to hold another summit meeting between Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan, it cannot help that the old back channel to Moscow's Washington embassy has been shut down...