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...suits brought by 21 states to recover Medicaid costs associated with smoking. But both the companies and the states deny that they are anywhere close to a comprehensive settlement. "There have been discussions about settlements with individual companies, most notably the Liggett Group," said Chris DeWitt, a spokesman for the Michigan attorney general's office. "But I have no information that there is any talk yet about a global settlement." Bloomberg News, quoting sources involved in the negotiations, had reported that the companies were attempting to settle the suits for as much as $250 billion. But tobacco firms were encouraged...
...suits brought by 21 states to recover Medicaid costs associated with smoking. But both the companies and the states deny that they are anywhere close to a comprehensive settlement. "There have been discussions about settlements with individual companies, most notably the Liggett Group," said Chris DeWitt, a spokesman for the Michigan attorney general's office. "But I have no information that there is any talk yet about a global settlement." Bloomberg News, quoting sources involved in the negotiations, had reported that the companies were attempting to settle the suits for as much as $250 billion. But tobacco firms were encouraged...
...Prime Minister Li Peng unexpectedly cut short countryside visits this weekend to return to Beijing. The Chinese government insisted on Tuesday that Deng's health was fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's health," assured one government spokesman. TIME's Douglas Waller notes that Jiang and Li may have returned to the capital to deal with the defection of North Korean official Hwang Jang Yop, currently ensconced in the South Korean embassy in Beijing. Waller notes that there is a more telling signal to watch...
...last week with the kind of fanfare that trumpets commercial fireworks. It was withheld from reviewers and the media until Wednesday, the day it went on sale. That protected any headline-grabbing revelations it might contain, not to mention the serializations scheduled to run in 12 countries. Said a spokesman for the publisher: "It was a very calibrated timing...
SEOUL: In a surprise move, North Korea moved to ease tensions on the peninsula by backing down from its earlier insistence that South Korean agents had actually kidnapped prominent defector Hwang Yang Jop. Instead, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that if the key member of the Communist Party's Central Committee voluntarily went to the consulate, "he is a renegade and he is dismissed." The announcement followed assurances by South Korea Monday that it will send food aid and nuclear technicians to the North despite feelings that Pyongyang was behind the shooting in Seoul this weekend of a prominent North...