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...Development, or I2D2 for short. (American Express knows something about marketing, after all.) I2D2 would buy Third World loans from commercial banks at a discount in exchange for bonds backed by industrial countries. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development offers a far more radical proposal: an outright 30% reduction of private bank loans owed by 15 major debtor countries...
...after 15 years, the remains of only 190 Americans have been returned, and both Viet Nam and the Reagan Administration seem reluctant to admit outright that most of those missing may never be accounted for. Yet the issue remains politically and diplomatically alive for both sides. Reagan took office with an apparent belief that some MIAs might still be living; at the same time, the President was critical of previous Administrations for what he considered their neglect of the question. In 1981 the White House created a Washington-based task force of more than 100 investigators to probe reports...
...foresee a deal that would meet those conditions. The U.S. still retains billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets, and Iran is pressing claims to them before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in the Hague. The U.S. could offer to speed up those proceedings without making an outright dollars-for-hostages offer that would smack of ransom. Washington could also insist on release of the hostages as a precondition for normalizing diplomatic relations with Iran and easing its opposition to favorable treatment of Iran by bodies such as the International Monetary Fund...
...make decisions about Columbia football--the president of the university, the athletic director and other university officials--agreed that something had to be done to stop the slide. Too much losing is not good. Twenty-six years of losing (Columbia has not had a winning season since 1962) is outright disastrous...
Such a scenario, of course, is rejected outright by Israel, which regards the P.L.O. as a terrorist group and considers large parts of the occupied territories necessary for its security. "The Israeli government will do everything so that these statements remain empty words, unmatched by deeds," said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Added Foreign Minister Shimon Peres: "It is not a substitute for dealing seriously with the situation." Ariel Sharon, a former Defense Minister who heads the Industry and Trade Ministry, proposed extending Israeli law to portions of the occupied territories. U.S. officials warned against that move, which would be tantamount...