SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: jttmab who wrote (2145)4/3/2001 4:52:22 AM
From: jttmab   of 93284
 
Found the damn story...

Schroeder: Bush Backs Payment Plan
The Associated Press
Thursday, March 29, 2001; 9:29 p.m. EST

WASHINGTON –– German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Thursday that he got assurances President Bush backs a Clinton administration agreement to compensate Nazi-era forced and slave laborers.

And attorneys said they will drop a lawsuit partly responsible for holding up those payments.

At issue is a July agreement in which Germany's government and industry set up a foundation to pay $5 billion in compensation to some 1 million former forced and slave laborers and other Holocaust victims in return for what they called "legal peace" in U.S. courts.

The agreement, negotiated with a number of governments, businesses and victims' representatives, said the U.S. government would seek dismissal of survivor lawsuits already pending in U.S. courts and discourage courts from accepting new ones. ............

© Copyright 2001 The Associated Press

Regards,
jttmab
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext