Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until 1985-and then only to nations that are paid-up UNESCO members. Snapped one member of the U.S. delegation: "It looks to us as if he's trying to rewrite the rules late in the game." But before tempers could flare further, the prospect of an amicable settlement was offered by UNESCO Liaison Officer Doudou Diene, who pledged that "ways and means will be found to give back the money...
...obliged to pay for what is viewed as a longstanding public right. That may be true even in Maine, which is still governed to some extent by a 17th century grant from the King of England that gave away huge tracts of coastal land, including the beaches, to encourage settlement...
Some 65 miles south of Nicaragua's border with Honduras, at a cluster of settlements known as Tasba Pri (Free Land), Sandinista officials hail what they describe as a model of revolutionary Indian development. Everything is new, from the tin-roofed wooden houses to the local schools and clinics. Equally new are the residents, some 8,500 Miskitos who were forcibly moved to the settlement two years ago from 42 villages near the Honduran border. A blanket of benign restrictions governs Tasba Pri; the residents are free to travel, for example, only after they apply for permission. Above...
TIME'S Jon Lee Anderson recently joined a squad of 20 Miskito rebels on a foray by boat that ended some 80 miles inside Nicaraguan territory; the guerrillas eventually camped in a mangrove swamp near a Miskito settlement south of the coastal town of Puerto Cabezas. At dusk, several of the rebels approached the village. The residents were friendly: women prepared food for the guerrillas, while a young instructor at a local Sandinista center for popular education complained about the pressures for political conformity from the revolutionary regime. Commented Leonard Zuñiga, 46, the Miskito rebel commander...
...willing to pay the price that the Likud has set for its cooperation: it wants Shamir to stay on as Prime Minister. There are also deep differences over other issues. Labor supporters were angered last week when, with backing from the Shamir government, four Jewish families established a new settlement in the town of Hebron. Labor favors a freeze on settlements in the occupied territories, and the surprise move was certain to add another stumbling block to unity talks...