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...Adams: No, not at all. There is no evidence at all of the perennial suggestion of a Republican split; there will be no Republican split. The difficulty is caused by the fact that until we kick-started this process there was no talk about a peace settlement. We had to bring the British government reluctantly around to the notion of looking for a new arrangement. We have to make sure we have a solid foundation; there are elements of the Downing Street Declaration, a joint peace plan presented by Prime Ministers John Major of Britain and Albert Reynolds of Ireland...
Instead, the U.S. should seek some diplomatic settlement which will ameliorate the harshness of the military regime and keep Aristide far from the reigns of power...
Ailing workers at an Ohio nuclear weapons plant won a $20 million settlement from the Energy Department, signaling that the government might yield in future cases at 16 other plants around the country. About 4,000 workers at the Fernald nuclear weapons plant north of Cincinnati filed a class action suit in 1990, alleging that many of them contracted cancer or leukemia because of exposure to radioactive material between 1952 and 1985.ANOTHER TRADE CENTER BOMBER? Just when the mystery behind the World Trade Center bombing seemed wrapped up, Canadian authorities detained another man wanted for FBI questioning. Charles Lee Knox...
After a four-year investigation of what the Justice Department termed "illegal monopolistic practices," the government announced a settlement in its case against Microsoft, the dominant company in the software industry. Microsoft admitted no guilt but agreed to loosen licensing arrangements with computer manufacturers, which often pre-load their machines with the firm's operating systems. The deal may spur more competition for Microsoft, but it removes the threat that the government will try to break up the behemoth...
...told Carter he would stick to his freeze as long as the U.S. was making "a good-faith effort" to work out a settlement. If last week's letter from Pyongyang contained any more specific time limit, it was not announced. But since the fuel rods are too radioactive to be processed for several weeks anyway, the two sides have a window of opportunity to determine how good the good faith is and to decide whether their resumed diplomacy promises to produce a settlement...