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...further obstacle to any prospective hostage deal lay in the snarl of legal complications that would make it impossible for Washington to deliver promptly on three of Khomeini's four conditions. Last Nov. 14, Carter issued an Executive order that froze more than $8 billion in Iranian assets held by U.S. banks. To unfreeze them now, explained the legal counsel for a major New York bank, would be "like putting an omelet back into the egg." Various corporations and individuals have liens against those assets to cover unpaid Iranian debts, and U.S. banks have "offset" a total of about...
...president Alison Dundes '81 said yesterday she was "afraid we may be getting into a bureaucratic snarl...
...single men aged 18 to 35 with no relatives in the U.S., few job skills and no knowledge of English; many are barely literate even in Spanish. Some came from Cuban jails or mental hospitals. Among the inmates are 266 juveniles under 18 who are caught in a bureaucratic snarl. They cannot be adopted by American families under a federal administrative ruling that would require the consent of their parents, who are still in Cuba and cannot be reached. Nor can the youths be enrolled in foster-care programs even if they have relatives living...
...ultimate authority in China. But by bringing in a younger, more vigorous team, Deng is clearly hoping to bring more efficiency and energy to China's government ministries. In the same way, he has also been trying to weed out the inefficient, lazy and corrupt officials who snarl the middle levels of China's huge bureaucracy...
...Cubans are imprisoned in a bureaucratic snarl. The physical exams and interviews with immigration officials move quickly enough; it is the search for the U.S. residents required to sponsor the refugees that takes time. Those with relatives already in the U.S. stand the best chance of speedy discharge, but finding those relatives is not always easy. The refugees come with telephone numbers but no area codes, addresses a decade or more old, or simply a name and little more -"Juan Diaz, New Jersey...