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Reversing a position that dates back to the Carter White House, Baker said the U.S. would withdraw diplomatic recognition of the Cambodian resistance coalition that includes the Khmer Rouge and would open talks with Vietnam about a Cambodian settlement. Officials in Washington and Moscow were caught off guard; diplomats in Hanoi and Beijing were stunned; and most Southeast Asian nations, with the exception of Thailand and Vietnam, were dismayed...
...village of Kafr Ni'ma lies in the hills west of Ramallah, a high village with an ancient terracing of stones. The people there grow figs, olives, almonds, grapes, plums. On a hill opposite, across the valley, one sees the bright white cubes and rectangles of a Jewish settlement -- a bedroom community for people who work in Jerusalem. The settlements on the West Bank are usually erected on the high ground for defense, and sit upon the landscape like moon stations...
...years later, Scott filed a $35 million damage suit against the Federal Government. In 1986 her lawyers offered to settle the case for $3.5 million. But the Reagan Justice Department balked at the settlement because of an ongoing effort to hold down the Government's costs in liability suits. That year a federal judge awarded the Scotts $11.1 million in damages. The Government appealed, but last week, fearful that the court would not reduce the award much if at all, the Bush Administration decided to settle the case for $8.5 million. That was "the most efficient way" of settling...
...Gilan, 5,000 residents of the town of Roudbar were killed and the settlement was 90% ruined. In Zanjan, the provincial capital was reported to be completely destroyed, along with 54 towns and villages. Most of the victims were buried beneath concrete walls and ceilings as they slept. Aftershocks rippled through the area in the next 36 hours, including one that registered 6.5 on the Richter scale. Iran's Red Crescent Society indicated that at least 400,000 people in a region of 3.7 million had been left homeless. The country's location between two seismic zones has rendered...
...onetime Likud moderate who criticized the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Levy switched to a hard line when Shamir proposed a peace plan last year, and as Housing Minister he secretly subsidized the Jewish settlement in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem's Old City last April. Levy has never hidden his desire to become Prime Minister, though polls rank him near the bottom of lists of ; leading candidates. His new job could change that perception -- or cement...