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Adams, an anthropologist and educator, servedas provost of the University of Chicago. Hisscholarship focuses on early state formation inthe ancient Near East and the New World. Born in1926, Adams' work includes field studies on thehistory of irrigation and urban settlement inIraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran and reconnaissance andexcavation missions of ancient Mayan settlementsin Mexico in the late 1950s...
...final chapter to one of Wall Street's many scandals, Wall Street power trader Salomon Brothers agreed to pay a $290 million fine as a settlement to a suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission and other government agencies. The investment firm admitted last August it had submitted billions of dollars in phony bids for Treasury notes and bonds. But unlike the benighted houses of E.F. Hutton and Drexel Burnham Lambert, Salomon can take solace in the government's decision not to press criminal charges...
...Electronic Data Systems employees while they worked on Nixon's 1968 campaign. When the IRS challenged Perot for taking a deduction on his company's tax bill for his political contributions, the White House, according to a memo, was "modestly helpful" to Perot in his efforts to reach a settlement with the agency. The next year, he spent $1 million on newspaper ads and a 30-minute TV program called United We Stand to drum up support for Nixon's Vietnam policy. According to documents in the Nixon archives, some of Perot's access came on a promise to spend...
...just enough to cover the inflation rate, would damage the economy. Last week the government was forced to offer 5.4%. The union leadership accepted, and chairwoman Monika Wulf-Mathies called it "a political victory." Minister of Special Tasks Rudolf Seiters, the government's chief negotiator, warned that the settlement would slow the country's economic growth. When federal, state and local costs were added up, he said, the government outlays would increase $10 billion this year. Rank-and-file union members will now have to vote on the deal...
...formally binding on the Canadian government, Ottawa is going ahead with its plans to set up a local administration and hand over political control of the area by 1999. In November the residents, 85% of whom are Inuit, will be asked to vote again on a complicated land settlement. The deal will offer the Inuit outright ownership of 135,000 sq. mi. and a cash payment of $1 billion over 14 years. If it is accepted, a crash program will begin training the Inuit to take over administration of the Nunavut territorial government...