Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three weeks, partly because the government did not want the news to come out before Mitterrand's speech on nuclear disarmament at the United Nations late last month. But French officials have also argued that the Super Etendards might, in fact, persuade the Iranians to pursue a negotiated settlement-to which Iraq is already pledged-thus ending the bloodshed. The French have another, less noble reason: Iraq owes France between $5 billion and $7 billion for previous arms deliveries. If Baghdad loses the war, Paris has little hope of collecting...
...Reagan Administration says it is satisfied with what the contras have accomplished, despite their divisions and discord. Officials credit the rebels' pressure and U.S. military maneuvers in the region for the Sandinistas' new interest in seeking a regional peace settlement. They also say that Nicaraguan assistance for the rebels in El Salvador, which the U.S. has found difficult to prove publicly, has diminished in recent months because the Sandinistas are too busy at home to meddle in their neighbors' affairs. But the gambit is risky. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned last week that if the contras...
...team of Harvard scholars of any other professional archeologists who unearthed this academic treasure, but a Louisiana state penitentiary guard with little more than a high school education. Leonard J. Charrier, a Cajun from Avoyelles Parish, La. says he figured out the location of the Tunica settlement by checking historical documents and taking into account changes in the meander of the Mississippi River...
Charrier's early "scavenger hunts were sparked by a general interest in early Louisiana history. Why the Tunica settlement? "I guess because I knew it existed," he says simply...
...states involvement in the case is Frederick G. Benton, a member of the antiquities commission who has represented the state in court free of charge. "Benton has always been there to always make the law come down as hard as possible on Charrier." Brain observes Benton has blocked settlement with Charrier, preferring instead to press his case in the courts...