Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affair, has, in turn, some considerable credits. His effort in consumer protection have helped thousands throughout Massachusetts. Bellotti indicted members of a huge arson ring and 26 politically connected corporations and individuals for stealing state vocational education funds. He led 46 states in obtaining a $40 million settlement against General Motors for switching engines on unsuspecting buyers...
Last week Brooke got the opportunity he wanted: a chance before the Senate Ethics Committee to cleanse his name of some of the tarnish accumulated from his messy divorce settlement with ex-Wife Remigia. Brooke's troubles with the committee began in June, when it opened an investigation into whether he had borrowed thousands of dollars, as indicated by a deposition he had given to Remigia's lawyers, and then failed to report the loans to the secretary of the Senate, as required by law. Earlier this month, Committee Counsel Richard Wertheimer resigned, angrily complaining that Brooke's "representatives...
...changed: Washington still believed that Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank is illegal. The U.S. hoped to convince Hussein that the time had come for him to join the peace process and to strengthen Sadat's position in the negotiations, increasing the chances of an eventual settlement between Israel and its other Arab neighbors...
Neither Sadat nor Begin has yet demonstrated a long-term commitment to resolving the problems in the Middle East. Nor do the agreements thus far reached indicate a settlement for the Middle East as a whole. Begin--in his insistence on retaining Israeli settlements on the West Bank--has already shown that the framework for peace only established the modalities for achieving a lasting solution to the tension in the Middle East...
...NOBEL COMMITTEE'S award to Kissinger and Duc Tho in 1973 in like fashion prematurely honored a short-term settlement, reached for the exigencies of the moment--namely, the American desire for withdrawal. Perhaps the Nobel Committee should reevaluate the difference between short-term diplomacy and long-term commitment to human justice and lasting peace in the spirit of Steve Biko...