Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indicate, would include free passage out of China for Fang Lizhi, the dissident astrophysicist who took refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing last June and is still there; the lifting of martial law in Beijing and Tibet; Chinese pressure on the murderous Khmer Rouge to allow a political settlement in Cambodia, and amnesty for pro- democracy demonstrators...
...government won the woman's freedom by capitulating to the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, which had demanded freedom for five comrades detained under antiterrorism measures. As news of the settlement spread, supporters of the pro-Pakistan J.K.L.F. thronged the streets of Srinagar, the state's summer capital, hoisting Pakistani flags and shouting slogans. When the crowd turned violent, seven people were killed in skirmishes with police, bringing the death toll to 85 over the past 16 months...
...gathering came six months after the University agreed in an out-of court settlement to a suit filed several years ago that it would remind first-year residents to keep noise levels to a minimum...
...requesting the memo, Thomas said he was asking that Harvard fulfill its part of the out-of-court settlement, which guaranteed that he would receive any communications between the University and Greenough residents regarding excess noise...
...part of the settlement, Harvard also agreed to re-landscape the courtyard in such a way as to "discourage use of the space for ball-playing and active recreation and to create an atmosphere encouraging quiet activities," the agreement said...