Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Pik Botha in a Rome hotel room, this time to discuss Angola and Namibia. In a vigorous all-day session, Crocker convinced the South African leader that a pullout of his country's forces in Angola could lead to a ceasefire, paving the way for a Namibian settlement. Meanwhile, in meetings on the Cape Verde Islands, Wisner won agreement from Angola that in return it would restrain further SWAPO attacks. As the disengagement went into effect in February, a team of U.S. observers was sent to the Namibian capital of Windhoek to monitor the progress...
...believes the press undercuts the public's understanding of issues because reporters do not learn enough about their subjects and because all writing contains an inherent bias. He cites Time magazine's coverage of Harvard's audit settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last November--a footnote to a piece on sexual harassment at Harvard--as an example. The one sentence note provoked a page-long mailing to the cc list, which added the magazine as an involuntary subscriber. "Time is acting as a patsy for HHS," Lang says. "They use sex and Harvard to catch...
...This isn't just a reversal," said Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. "It's reneging." The original settlement, said Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington, who helped negotiate it, "could have healed a 100-year-old wound. Now we will have to fight old battles"-in a federal courtroom, not in Birmingham's streets...
...Israeli official last week saw the threat of Jewish-Arab violence as reason to pursue one of his country's most inflammatory policies, the settlement of Israelis in the West Bank. In a radio interview, Minister Without Portfolio Ariel Sharon raised the hypothetical possibility of Israeli military retaliation against West Bank towns for Arab terrorist acts, unless Jewish settlers are moved into every Arab community. Said Sharon: "If [the West Bank city of] Nablus will be a place which is a center of terror, and Jews won't enter it, it is reasonable to assume that...
...because reputation rather than monetary damages is usually what is at stake. Kaufman and other participants urged consideration of two major changes in libel law: elimination or sharp reduction of punitive damage awards in excess of a plaintiffs actual losses, and use of published retractions as part of a settlement...