Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan quickly complied. Said Republican Hamilton Fish of New York, who had voted against contra aid in April: "Everything I requested was accepted." Beyond the individual talking points, moreover, the Administration succeeded in convincing some skeptics in Congress that the aid package was a genuine step toward a diplomatic settlement. As drafted by National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, the plan involves working through a new, broadly based anti-Sandinista group, the United Nicaraguan Opposition. It includes ex-Sandinistas who turned against the government because of its repressive measures, as well as some former followers of deposed Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza...
...Rabin said he personally favored an Arab delegation that included representatives from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip because it is those territories that would be directly affected. Israel's only stipulation: that the Palestinian delegates not be members of the P.L.O. Rabin sounded somewhat optimistic about settlement prospects when, after assessing the changed state of the Muslim world and the reduced strength of the P.L.O., he concluded, "If there is a time when it can be done, it is now." He added, however, "I hope that the present excitement that exists in certain circles in Washington will...
...Palestinians who are not members of the P.L.O. Shultz also listed points on which the U.S. disagrees with Hussein. Washington does not believe, for example, that the negotiations should take place at an international conference, because it does not want to see the Soviet Union involved in Middle East settlement efforts. The U.S., moreover, insists that it will deal directly with the P.L.O. only if the organization makes a forthright public statement of its support for relevant U.N. resolutions and of its recognition of Israel...
...settlement was an apparent victory for the three daughters of George Franklin Getty II, the eldest of Getty's five sons, who died at 49 of an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol in 1973. The daughters (Anne, 32, Claire, 30, and Caroline, 27, known collectively to the lawyers as the Georgettes) had received $35 million annually, in contrast to the more than $100 million that Gordon got, and resented his power over the trust...
Another victor was a Getty heir with the unlikely name Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramaphone Getty, an ally of the Georgettes' in the legal battle. Tara, the son of Eugene Paul Getty and grandson of J. Paul, turned 17 on the day the settlement was reached. The teenager stands to inherit a chunk of the trust's assets on the death of the last of J. Paul's three surviving sons. The settlement calls for Tara to begin immediately receiving $250,000 in annual income...