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...Middle East peace process goes on--and not even the bloodshed in Lebanon stopped Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from agreeing last week to start negotiating next month on a final settlement--Iran or Syria may have been growing uneasy. Some Syrians suspect Iran had concluded that Assad was about to sign a treaty with Israel and cranked up Hizballah to delay the process. Other analysts think Assad is worried about what disruption peace with Israel might bring to Syria's tightly controlled society and has decided to stall...
...after four years of separation, pushed for the divorce. It couldn't have been for money. The $3 million she got was mostly earmarked for the care of the children, leaving her in a nasty debt hole. (She's said to owe at least that.) While this settlement from a son of England's richest family would make American divorce lawyers choke, Andrew isn't that wealthy, earning about $420,000 a year, from which he has to pay his staff. And the public has a lot less sympathy for Fergie than for Diana, partly because of Fergie's carefree...
This week, the civil trial against Goetz ended much differently--one of his victims won a $43 million settlement. Apparently, this jury did believe that Goetz acted improperly when he stood over one of the wounded youth and callously remarked: "You don't look so bad. Here's another one," before shooting him again. That second shot paralyzed the teenager and reduced his mental capacity to that of an eight-year-old child...
...civil trial was largely symbolic, because Goetz will hardly be able to pay even a small fraction of the settlement. The civil proceedings were begun by the late anti-establishment legal hero William Kunstler, and concluded by Ronald Kuby, the pony-tailed bearer of Kunstler's mantle. The second Goetz verdict may signal that juries have become more immune to race-baiting or less likely to see black youth as potential muggers...
...People, one of several organizations promoting Freemen-style ideologies and fraud schemes. Depending on his audience, Schwasinger told listeners that either the Federal Government or the U.S. banking system had lost a class-action suit for defrauding farmers and ranchers. To cash in on their share of the (nonexistent) settlement, he offered them a helpful kit of documents. Price...