Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice Department has joined a suit by a group of ten white policemen and firemen seeking to overturn the settlement. The plaintiffs claim they have been passed over so that less qualified blacks and women can fill numerical quotas. The city, they charge, has engaged in "illegal and unconstitutional discrimination against whites and males...
...Last week, for instance, the department asked a federal court of appeals to throw out a Dade County, Fla., law setting aside construction contracts for minority contractors. But the Birmingham case differs in at least one important respect: back in 1981 the department had promised to defend the original settlement from legal attack...
...about his country's prospects. Although he started the war in the hope of toppling the Ayatullah, Saddam Hussein has long since learned that his country, which has only one-third the population of Iran, lacks the might to achieve a victory. His repeated offers to negotiate a settlement have been rejected by Khomeini. Most Western analysts take Saddam Hussein's latest threat seriously: if Iran achieves a breakthrough on the ground, they believe, Iraq may feel compelled to attack Kharg. Saddam Hussein probably could not destroy the facility, since it is well protected, but he could bomb...
...Washington, Reagan Administration officials claimed to be turning their attention back to the broader issue of a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East, a course of action that conveniently justified a course of inaction in Lebanon. On Capitol Hill, Secretary of State George Shultz nonetheless assured a Senate committee that once political reconciliation was under way in the shattered country, "we will be prepared to provide appropriate advice and support for the Lebanese armed forces...
Without political and diplomatic agreement on a Lebanese settlement, Weinberger said, withdrawal was the only logical course of action. The Marines, no longer part of either the problem or the solution, could only agree . - By George Russell...