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...humanitarian aid has come under fire. Frustrated that the Americans are using aid contributions as an excuse to avoid sending in ground forces, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe urged the U.S. last week to take a more active role to push the Muslim-dominated government into accepting a settlement partitioning Bosnia among the three ethnic blocs. "The humanitarian track," he said, "is not enough...
...many newshounds -- 250 littered the lawn of the Superior Court building in Santa Monica last week to hear the announcement of the epochal compromise -- and for the two squads of lawyers. The main attorneys got high marks for their work. "Feldman publicized, publicized, publicized, and then got the big settlement," says New York City attorney Raoul Felder. "Cochran and Howard Weitzman did a good job by hobbling the criminal case...
...attach to them -- for all the media to see -- a transcript of ; the boy's deposition, which contained a gruesome list of Jackson's alleged pedophiliac predations. "The media ran with it," says Malcolm Boyes, producer of the tabloid TV show Inside Edition, "and it helped Feldman push the settlement...
...take the Fifth Amendment and a severe public relations hit; or pay the king's ransom. All Feldman had to do was let the clock tick and the meter run up. Sure enough, Jackson's team got the deposition postponed for a week, by which time negotiations for a settlement were well advanced. Now that the deal has been approved, he won't have to testify at all. Jackson settled, Feldman believes, because "his business people made a judgment call." What he surely means is, Better to be judged guilty in the court of public opinion than in a court...
...father last year. The trust will ensure that not all the millions end up in the parents' pockets. But how much will the megarich star be left with? Reportedly, Cochran has asked TIG Insurance, the Transamerica subsidiary that holds Jackson's personal-liability policy, to cover the settlement...