Word: settlements
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...Thomas Tureen, 42, a graduate of Princeton College and George Washington University Law School, who took up the cause of Indian rights. In a ten-year court fight on behalf of the 4,200 members of Maine's Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes, he won an $81.5 million land-claim settlement in 1980. The Indians then asked him to become their financial adviser. Recalls Penobscot Chief Timothy Love: "We just did not want to dissipate all our money the way some other Indians have with their settlements...
Under Tureen's guidance, the Maine Indians used a third of their settlement to repurchase 300,000 acres of lost forest land. Another third was put into a trust and now provides each Passamaquoddy and Penobscot household with a $1,000 to $1,200 annuity. To help the Indians invest the remaining $27 million, Tureen set up Tribal Assets in partnership with Daniel Zilkha, 44, a Princeton friend and former Wall Street investment banker. Because of Zilkha's connections in the financial community, says Tureen, "we had access to capital markets in a way that Indians would never have...
International security and real disarmament are impossible without greater trust between the nations of the West and the U.S.S.R. and other socialist countries. There must be a settlement of regional conflicts on the basis of compromise and restoration of stability wherever it has been disrupted. Support for destabilizing and extremist forces and all terrorist groups should be ended, along with attempts to expand the sphere of influence of one side at the expense of the other. All countries should work together on economic, social and ecological problems. Greater openness and democracy in our country are necessary. We need the free...
...nuclear-free world is a desirable goal, but it will be possible only in the future as the result of many radical changes in the world. The - conditions for peaceful development now and in the future are settlement of regional conflicts; parity in conventional arms; liberalization, democratization and greater openness of Soviet society; observance of civil and political rights; a compromise solution on the issue of antimissile defenses without combining it in a package with other questions of strategic weapons. Convergence -- a rapprochement of the socialist and capitalist systems -- offers a real and lasting solution to the problem of international...
...Harmon said that the university's settlement in no way prevented it from filing the written exception...