Word: settlements
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Secretary of State George Shultz went on the road last week to defend American policy toward Nicaragua. During a speech in Guatemala before the 16th General Assembly of the Organization of American States, he offered little hope for a negotiated settlement. "Foreign intervention in the form of alien ideologies and foreign cadres -- from Cuba, the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, Viet Nam and Libya -- is at this very moment promoting instability and violence in Central America," said Shultz. "The only road to peace and stability is to eliminate that alien intervention." He asserted that "there would be a great...
...with the debut of The People's Court, whose innovative concept was to show actual small-claims cases being argued on camera. Participants agree to dismiss their cases in real court and abide by the decision of the TV judge; in return, the show agrees to pay the financial settlement. (If none is awarded, the participants divide $500; thus no one winds up a loser...
...Shad announced that Manhattan-based Ivan Boesky, one of Wall Street's richest and most frenetically active individual speculators, had been snared in the biggest insider-trading case ever. In a consent decree Boesky, 49, had agreed to pay $100 million, which Shad described as "by far the largest" settlement obtained by the SEC for insider-trading activity. After a 16 1/2-month transition period in which Boesky will gradually dispose of his holdings, he will be barred for life from stock trading in the U.S. The tall, impeccably tailored Wall Street superstar has agreed to plead guilty to a single...
...program or the withdrawal from Lebanon--were pushed by Labor over Likud's opposition. There is also a split over the West Bank. Likud lays claim to the area on principle; Labor does not. Likud wants to settle it as intensively and quickly as possible; Labor wants to limit settlement. The U.S. is particularly sensitive on the issue; no sooner was Shamir installed in his new job, than Washington reiterated its concern...
Mitter says he and a group of Currier residents will petition the house committee Sunday night to negotiate some settlement between the pro-and anti-Juke factions. Putting a lock on the machine's volume, prohibiting its use at night, or trading it in for a regular juke box are some of the compromises Mitter says he will propose...