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...Your critics here and in the U.S. say that the time may not be right for this kind of symbolism, that such intended reconciliation will only reopen old wounds...
...both houses, Reagan won some additional support with a last-minute pledge to reopen direct negotiations between the United States and the Sandinista government, a key issue in Democratic opposition to Reagan's policy toward Central America...
...Bhopal litigation is expected to dwarf those disputes. Approximately 2,000 people were killed and 200,000 injured by the lethal cloud of methyl- isocyanate gas from a Union Carbide pesticide plant (which the company last week announced will never reopen). "The worst industrial disaster mankind has ever known," charged Robins Zelle's formal complaint. India is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages on behalf of itself, the victims and "future generations of victims...
Because of its huge losses, Home State will be allowed to reopen only if it is merged with a much larger bank. Manhattan's Citicorp and Chemical New York are showing interest but have made no commitments. Home State's customers desperately hope for a buyer to come along because the new Ohio legislation does not require the failed bank to give them even the $750 a month. The depositors are not likely to suffer quietly. More than 50 marched last week into the Ohio statehouse, chanting "We want our money back...
Mubarak gambled that he could change the President's mind in part because he genuinely fears that a chance to reopen negotiations is slipping away, and in part because he reasoned that a re-elected Reagan would be more willing to risk an initiative that might offend American supporters of Israel. His miscalculation drew the expectable jeers from radical Arabs: the Libyan news agency JANA scoffed that his reception in Washington had lowered Mubarak "to his natural position as an employee of the U.S. State Department." Reagan sought to soften the blow by lavishing praise on Mubarak's peace efforts...