Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against this assault, the Administration maintained that the agreement, hammered out after ten wearing months of negotiations, was designed to maintain good relations with both Peking and Taipei. Soon after Reagan took office, Administration insiders say, Peking began pressing Washington for a settlement on the thorny issue of continued U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan. When Peking began demanding a firm date for the U.S. to halt selling arms to Taiwan, Washington countered by insisting that the Chinese formally renounce the use of force to achieve reunification with Taiwan, and the talks foundered. But last May, after Chinese Communist Party Vice...
military action. Instead, he would normally drive in a bulletproof car from Beirut to Jounieh, a seaside town north of the capital, and board a U.S. helicopter for Larnaca in Cyprus. Then he would catch a flight to Tel Aviv. As the negotiations edged toward a settlement, U.S. intelligence agents picked up reports that an extremist splinter group of the P.L.O., run by George Habash, intended to assassinate the envoy. The faction opposed a P.L.O. withdrawal from Beirut. Habib spent one night in the shelter of the residence of U.S. Ambassador Robert S. Dillon in Yarze, southeast of Beirut. Habib...
...seven months, executives of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1981 revenues: $59.2 billion) have not dared pop open champagne bottles to celebrate the settlement of the Government's antitrust suit against the company. Reason: they have waited nervously for U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene to end the case by signing a consent decree for the landmark agreement that AT&T and the Justice Department reached in January. Greene had won a reputation for pulling surprises in the eight-year-old case, and nothing could be set until he approved the deal. Last week the judge did it again, ruling...
Some of the loudest applause came from Representative Timothy Wirth of Colorado, who last month conceded temporary defeat in a battle to pass legislation that included many of the changes Greene has now demanded. Said Wirth: "I am pleased that Judge Greene shares the view that while the settlement will significantly enhance competition in the telecommunications industry, it also needed major changes...
...Chairman Charles Brown said last week that the firm was "pleased" that Greene was satisfied with the basic settlement and predicted that the modifications would be accepted. Said he: "After all we have been through, to have the thing run aground at this late date would be very frustrating." The loss of the Yellow Pages will clearly hurt the main company, however, as will the possible surrender of the local telephone stores where phone equipment is sold. AT&T had been planning to use the shops as a marketing arm for American Bell, the subsidiary that was created in June...