Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan had said he would not make a request to Israel to release its detainees, Hill was asked his reaction. Said he: "I need to reflect on that. I don't want to make a comment at this time." Conwell closed the meeting with a plea for a quick settlement. "If a person is not a legitimate prisoner of war or a prisoner due to other crimes, let's all use common sense," he said. "Let's get innocent people where they belong -- with their loved ones...
...charges relating to perhaps twelve or more youths, was arraigned last week on two additional counts. In San Diego, Monsignor Rudolph Galindo, former rector of the San Diego | cathedral, denied committing sexual improprieties with a Vietnamese immigrant altar boy, but in May the archdiocese agreed to a $75,000 settlement with the youngster's family. A related lawsuit brought by the boy's father is pending...
...answer to a maiden's prayer. With Carter Crick laid waste by evil strip miners, young Megan (Sydney Penny) kneels over her martyred pooch and begs God for "a miracle" to save her mother (Carrie Snodgress), her mom's suitor (Michael Moriarty) and what is left of the settlement. Dissolve to Clint on horseback. He saves the good folks, kills the bad folks, dodges a mother-daughter rivalry for his affections and ends up in a showdown ^ with a gunslinger (John Russell) who is even gaunter than Clint. You could hibernate in Russell's cheek hollows...
...away from a lawless right wing in El Salvador and embracing Centrist Jose Napoleon Duarte, wrote Oklahoma's McCurdy in a Washington Post op-ed article, the U.S. ended up "on the side of democracy and helped weaken both extremes, setting El Salvador on the road to a political settlement." Crossing the centrist "threshold" in Nicaragua, says Fortier, "could create a dynamic of its own, just as in El Salvador...
...France, Spain and Britain; they later agreed that such a meeting could be held at Berri's residence, where he would act as their representative. The terrorists' repeated emphasis on seeing officials of Amal, the mainstream Shi'ite organization, suggested not only that they were seeking a negotiated settlement but that their motivation may have been essentially political rather than ideological...