Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a 17-year break) to follow suit. Although the cautious Jordanian King's policies are slowly shifting, there was still no sign last week that, as Peres and the U.S. had hoped, Hussein would soon join Egypt, the U.S. and Israel in negotiations toward a Middle East settlement...
...nations of the world are mired in roughly 300 maritime boundary disputes, and last week a special panel of the International Court of Justice reduced that number by one. From The Hague, the World Court's headquarters in The Netherlands, the panel announced the settlement of a 20-year-old case between the U.S. and Canada over the Gulf of Maine, which lies between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. The decision awards the U.S. about two-thirds of the gulf and Canada the rest. The 30,000-sq.-mi. area includes the Georges Bank, one of the world...
...check was a prized hunting trophy. Made out to the United States of America and drawn on Chase Manhattan Bank, the check for $113,018,306.71, along with other payments, concluded a 13-month tax-fraud prosecution of two companies controlled by fugitive Commodities Broker Marc Rich. The total settlement of nearly $200 million, said Giuliani, "represents the largest amount of money ever recovered by the United States in a criminal tax-evasion case...
...satellites have photographed two big new boosters on the launchpads at Tyuratam and new runways for the shuttle. A congressional study describes the Salyut missions as "the cornerstone of an official policy which looks not only toward permanent Soviet human presence in low earth orbit, but also toward permanent settlement of their people on the moon and Mars." The report warns: "The Soviets take quite seriously the possibility that large numbers of their citizens will one day live in space...
What had been shaping up as a rancorous year for contract negotiations has so far turned into one of settlement without major strikes. The United Mine Workers last week accepted, 4 to 1, a contract providing a 10.25% raise over 40 months. Though it was the first time since 1964 that the union had not gone out on strike at the end of a contract, U.M.W. President Richard Trumka, a miner turned lawyer, hailed his members as "the shock troops of the American labor movement...