Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into more lucrative civil trial work, initially with Philip Corboy, Chicago's famed personal injury litigator. For two malpractice suits brought by parents of infants blinded after childbirth, she criss-crossed the country, taking out-of-court testimony from 26 doctors, and helped to secure a million-dollar settlement in one of the cases...
...point is that the study of settlement in the New World, particularly New England, should not be judged like a business. The present administration in Washington is not overly concerned with preservation, conservation, or cultural resource management. If academia is unwilling to serve as the repositories for our history past and present to whom can one turn 'Federal and state governments with limited public resources and political biases, are not obvious candidates...
Washington publicly deplored the "extremely heavy, brutal and prolonged" Soviet bombing of rebel regions, and repeated the U.S. desire "to see Afghanistan's agony brought to an end through Soviet troop withdrawal as part of a negotiated settlement." Western military analysts in Pakistan said that the Soviets may be trying to soften up their withdrawal routes for the time when a pullout is arranged. But Moscow was hardly taking any chances. In Ghazni, south of Kabul, some 10,000 Soviet troops, along with ground and air support, were reportedly massed in preparation for a maneuver to seal...
Publicly, State Department officials stayed mum on the leak and tried to shift attention back to American support for the Pakistani-led efforts to negotiate a political settlement for Afghanistan. Privately, however, they were furious. They were worried that the revelation would embarrass the Pakistanis into cracking down on the arms shipments. "Successful covert actions must be kept quiet," snapped one official. "That's why they're covert." Some State Department hands speculated that the leak was designed to highlight the Administration's involvement in a popular cause like Afghanistan, where the Soviet threat is unambiguous...
...Open for the first time since 1974; after four years of marriage, one child; in Miami. Patti's suit asks for custody of Son Brett David, 3, use of the couple's pricey North Miami Beach condominium, and abrogation of a prenuptial agreement limiting any divorce settlement...