Word: seeks
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...ease the international debt problem by encouraging moderate Third World growth through measured dollops of additional loans. Citicorp's decision to set aside funds puts pressure on other heavily exposed U.S. banks to do likewise. That policy, in turn, could help push up interest rates as the institutions seek to recover the costs of their set-asides...
...long-deposed monarch in Afghanistan, where 115,000 Soviet troops have been fighting a war of attrition against mujahedin rebels for the past seven years. Dismissing charges that he would withdraw Soviet troops only if a Moscow-dominated government remained in power, Gorbachev invited the Afghans to seek new leadership "in their own country, among refugees and emigrants abroad, or maybe in . . . Italy." That was an apparent reference to Mohammed Zahir Shah, 72, who served as Afghanistan's monarch from 1933 until he was overthrown in 1973, and now lives near Rome. Some rebel groups have said that Zahir would...
Walsh might also charge some people, particularly North, Richard Secord and others who shredded documents, with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Legal experts predict Walsh will further seek indictments against officials, including North and possibly Robert McFarlane, who helped draft a chronology of the Iran-contra affair that contained serious inaccuracies. The chronology was intended to prepare the President for his Nov. 19 press conference and to help guide the late CIA Director William Casey through his congressional testimony. Here the charge would be conspiracy to suborn perjury. Walsh would not have to prove that Casey or anyone else actually gave...
...international organizations, trade sanctions against Japan, or secret operations in the Middle East and Central America, we seem inclined to pursue our goals around the world with somewhat less attention to the interests of others, somewhat less concern for the reactions of our neighbors, and somewhat less determination to seek collective solutions to common problems...
...possible to get a fair trial in a military court, but it depends on good will and just intentions," says Charles Bumer, a longtime military-court civilian lawyer. Kunstler is less sanguine. He may seek to have Lonetree's case moved to federal courts. But Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey, another civilian veteran of the military courts, thinks that may be a mistake. Tongue just slightly in cheek, he maintains, "If I'm guilty, I want a civilian trial; if innocent, military justice is superior...