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This is the third in an eight-part occasional series on the taxpayer-financed perks enjoyed by middle- and upper-class Americans...
...Iranian assets. The agreement was reached after two days of negotiations between State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer and a senior adviser to Iran's President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The two met in the Hague, site of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal that was set up as part of the 1981 deal that freed the 62 American embassy hostages in Tehran. Both sides agreed that Iran will be paid most of the balance remaining in an account established to settle claims from U.S. banks that made loans to the Shah's government before the 1979 Islamic revolution...
...wanted the balance, now about $820 million, that remained of the $1.4 billion the account originally held. In 1987 the Reagan Administration had unsuccessfully resisted a similar $500 million claim by Iran against a different account. This time the Bush Administration responded by dispatching Sofaer to the Hague. As part of the deal that was eventually reached, Iran agreed that $243 million from the account will be transferred to a third fund, covering claims against Iran by individual American citizens and corporations...
Giuliani claimed that Dinkins was seeking to evade taxes in a murky sale to his son of stock in a black-controlled broadcasting company. He followed up by disclosing that Dinkins had not listed on required financial-disclosure forms a vacation trip to France paid for in part by a close friend. Though Dinkins provided plausible explanations for the lapses, the explanations were slow in coming. With more time, Giuliani might have been able to capitalize on his reputation as one of the nation's toughest lawmen. When the candidates squared off in televised debates, Dinkins complained that Giuliani...
...months ahead are going to require finesse on everyone's part. The Balts have to be at least as clever as they are bold in defining sovereignty. Moscow is going to have to adopt an increasingly imaginative and elastic definition of what it means to be a republic of the U.S.S.R. And American policymakers ought to acknowledge that the kinds of people it once considered Kremlin quislings are now champions of the goal that the U.S. itself has advocated for nearly a half-century...