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...reputation goes, the rape case doesn't help," Wood said, adding that alumni had not informed the undergraduates about the settlement before it appeared in The Crimson. He said that he wished the case had gone to trial so that the facts surrounding the alleged rape could have been publicly established...
...trash-filled airsickness bag and claimed it was a bomb. His attempt at humor didn't go over very well with the crew, which placed the bag carefully in a protective box, dumped fuel and headed back to Japan. Last week the prankster paid United a relatively small damage settlement of $29,000. An airline lawyer explained that after the man apologized, the company decided to take a "very Japanese action" and not sue for the total costs of the returned flight...
...President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani plainly hopes to redeem Iran's tough behavior toward Iraq for better ties with the West and the gulf countries. Iran may still use the planes -- and their pilots, who remain in detention -- as leverage in any future bargaining with Iraq over a final settlement of the Iran-Iraq war, for which there is now only an oral peace pact. If that fails and the planes eventually decompose into pricey rust heaps, at least Iran will have the satisfaction of knowing that Saddam was denied their...
That restraint was followed by a flurry of statements from Israeli officials that show the Jewish state's desire to sit down with Palestinian representatives and leaders of Arab countries to work out a peace settlement for the region...
...United States and the Soviet Union. In addition to lacking a mechanism that might bring the Arabs and Israelis to the negotiating table, the very idea of a multinational peace conference is a dead letter with the Israelis, who fear they may be railroaded into an unfavorable settlement...