Word: settlements
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...Reagan could not say he has no anwer to his proposal for a Middle East settlement." That was the way a top political adviser to Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat ex plained the significance of a diplomatic arrangement worked out last week between the P.L.O. and Jordan. The agreement, hammered out in committee meetings chaired by Arafat and Jordanian Prime Minister Mudar Badran, pledges "joint political moves at all levels" and calls for "a special and distinctive relationship" between Jordan and a "liberated Palestine" to be created out of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza...
Alan Foster, 35, and his wife Vickie, 29, live with their three children in Campamento Chimora, a frontier settlement hacked out of Bolivia's hellish rain forest. Foster, whose father was an evangelist, was sent by the New Tribes Mission to work with the Yuqui Indians. He is about to join a "contact team" that hopes to find three elusive Yuqui groups deep in the jungle. Such teams are often attacked by the tribesmen they are trying to reach. But for all the dangers of their task, the Fosters have developed a close rapport with Indians at the station...
Joining the chorus of international protest, the Reagan Administration deplored the attack and called for a settlement in southern Africa "through peaceful negotiation." That goal seems out of reach: South Africa clearly intended its show of force to be a message to other southern African states harboring A.N.C. militants, like Zimbabwe and Mozambique, that it is prepared to strike again if necessary...
...stillvote), Joan appeared to be near tears, according to Court Clerk Robert Farrell, but "Ted put his hand on her shoulder, and she seemed to regain her composure." Under the terms of what Joan called a "very generous" agreement, she will get alimony, child support, a lump-sum cash settlement, their apartment on Boston's Beacon Street and their Hyannis Port home. They will share legal custody of Patrick, 15; Edward Jr., 21, and Kara, 22, are no longer minors. Said Joan in a written statement: "I share with my husband a strong sense of dedication to our children...
...well as a conventional one. Back in San Francisco, the city's retirement board last month voted to award $5,500 in survivor's death benefits to Scott Smith, former lover of Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was shot four years ago by a disgruntled onetime colleague. The settlement of Smith's claim was not a legal precedent but, says Smith, "it sets a moral precedent...