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...hard to see how dispatching the Carter mission to Haiti could do Clinton anything but good. If it failed, and the President had to give the order to invade, he could at least contend he had really exhausted every possibility of reaching a peaceful settlement -- despite his declaration on Thursday night that he had already exhausted every diplomatic effort. He could call on three respected elder statesmen spanning a fairly wide political spectrum -- and all announced opponents of the invasion -- to back up that claim...
Clinton's decision to send a former president and a former Head of the Joint Chiefs to Port-au-Prince last week to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Haitian junta ought to raise serious questions about the uses and abuses of American diplomatic initiative...
...sides appear very far apart, and Shea said that initial efforts to settle the matter have failed. He said the parties will continue to try to reach a settlement...
While there have been recent talks between the club and the union, no settlement is near, union officials said yesterday...
...September 1990) was carefully scheduled so that it would air in the sweet spot of the baseball season: on consecutive nights (with a two-day weekend break) starting Sept. 18, just as pennant fever was heating up but before the play-offs and World Series. Now, with a strike settlement seemingly as far off as ever, Baseball may well give fans their only trip to the ballpark this fall. "If the strike affects us," says Burns, "I think it's going to help, because we'll be the only game in town...