Word: settlement
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...never ratified the treaties, as required by the Nonintercourse Act of 1790, which mandated congressional approval of Indian land transactions. The Justice Department, concurring with this argument, said that it would take Maine landowners, including the state itself, to court on behalf of the tribes unless a congressionally approved settlement was reached by June 1. President Jimmy Carter plans to appoint a mediator to try to negotiate an agreement...
Assistant Attorney General Peter Taft, who drafted Justice's brief, hopes that Congress will decide on a one-shot cash and land settlement of the Indian claim; the Government would presumably provide the bulk of the cash, as it did in the $1 billion Alaska native claims settlement of 1971. If there is no settlement by June 1, the Justice Department would start filing suits-most likely against paper companies with large landholdings. The outcome-in either legislation or litigation-could set the pattern for the settlement of similar yet smaller Indian land claims in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut...
...risky friendships, Traube's bosses told him that West Germany's controversial nuclear energy program would suffer if word of his social life leaked to the press while he was still running Interatom's program for developing fast-breeder reactors. Not content with a comfortable financial settlement, Traube demanded a federal investigation and instead received a letter exonerating him of any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, he was unable to regain his job-or a position that he particularly wanted with JET, the inter-European nuclear power project. There the matter stood until a source every bit as mysterious...
Walzer was more optimistic about a peace settlement than Sheehan, who said the parties "won't agree to basic elements of a final peace" without foreign mediation...
America must guarantee an active involvement in any international conference on a Middle East peace settlement, speakers who addressed a forum on the proposed Geneva Conference said last night...