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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2002
Victim tentatively agree to settle
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Alleged sexual abuse victims of defrocked priest John Geoghan have tentatively agreed to a $10 million settlement from the Boston Archdiocese to drop their lawsuits, their attorney said yesterday.
said yesterday, "It's time to move on and try to heal as best they can, if at all," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Mitchell Garabedian.
The money will be divided among 86 plaintiffs, with the bulk of the settlement — $9.3 million
- going to those who say they were molested by Geoghan.
Another 20 people who say
Geoghan exposed himself to them will split $540,000.
Sixteen parents of children who say they were abused by Geoghan will divide $160,000.
Donna Morrissey, a spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said she would not characterize the deal as final, but said, "We're working towards it and our desire is to settle these cases in a fair and equitable manner."
Cardinal Bernard Law's attorney said two weeks ago that the $10 million offer had been tentatively accepted — a claim Garabedian denied then.
The apparent new deal comes six months after the victims and
the archdiocese announced a settlement worth up to $30 million.
But the archdiocese backed, and said it could not afford that settlement as hundreds of other lawsuits were being filed.
Garabedian said yesterday that his clients agreed to the lower figure because they wanted to try to put the abuse behind them.
A hearing was scheduled for today before Judge Constance Sweeney, who is handling all the clergy sexual abuse cases.
Garabedian said Sweeney would be asked to approve a petition from an alleged Geoghan vice
tim who is still a minor.
The boy is now 17 years old, and the judge must approve his participation in the settlement before the deal can be finalized. Garabedian said.
Geoghan is serving a six-year prison term after being convicted in January of groping a 10-year-old boy in a swimming pool in the early 1990s.
The sexual abuse scandal engulfing the nation's Roman Catholic Church was sparked in January with revelations that church officials shuffled Geoghan from parish to parish despite knowing of abuse allegations against him.
Israel, Arabs fling accusations at assembly
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Amid more violence in the Middle East, Israel and the Arabs traded terrorism accusations at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday but held out the chance for peace in their 54-year-old conflict.
Israel blamed Palestinian terror attacks for rolling back efforts toward a political settlement. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said peace could still be achieved.
The leaders spoke as more violence erupted in the Middle East.
A bombing in Israel broke a six-week lull in Palestinian suicide attacks.
A Palestinian blew himself up at a bus stop in a northern Israeli Arab town, killing one policeman and wounding two others.
Two Palestinians also died
one killed by Israeli troops and the other apparently by Palestinians who suspected him of being a collaborator.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah guerrillas opened anti-aircraft fire on Israeli fighter jets flying reconnaissance missions over the country's south.
That came as a water-diversion project in southern Lebanon triggered cross-border tensions and threats.
On Tuesday at the United Nations, the so-called Quartet of key global players trying to end the Arab-Israeli conflict said they were trying to forge a deal under which there would be a provisional Palestinian state next year and a final settlement of the conflict by 2005.
But Israel rejected a Palestinian offer to halt attacks on civilians as the first stage of a gradual truce, and Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon said yesterday he would settle for nothing less than a "total cessation" of violence.
Peres said yesterday that Israel accepted President Bush's vision for Mideast peace, which he said was supported by the Quartet — the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.
The U.S. proposals "can be considered as a road map and a calendar," Peres said, but blamed violence for preventing a settlement.
The Israeli foreign minister said his country respected political developments in Palestinian society, maintaining it provided hope for peace.
"Reducing violence will shorten political distances." Peres said. "Political horizons are, in my judgment, within reach."
another country with which Israel shares a tense border, that Hezbollah guerrillas had a "dangerous agenda."
He called on Lebanon to release four Israelis captured by guerrillas in October 2000.
Peres warned Lebanon.
Lebanon's Hammoud said "security approaches alone, and partial interim solutions" would not be able to solve the Mideast conflict.
He said the priority should be on reaching a just and comprehensive settlement.
Hammoud said a resolution of the conflict should take into account the issue of Palestinian refugees, 350,000 of whom live in Lebanon.
The Lebanese minister called for the release of Lebanese prisoners held by Israel and said Lebanon reserved the right to demand from Israel compensation for years of occupation.
U.S., British allies craft resolution for Iraq inspections
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS Bucking an anti-war mood among their U.N. Security Council partners, the United States and Britain began crafting a toughly worded resolution yesterday that would narrow the timetable for Iraqi compliance with weapons inspections and authorize force if Iraq failed to cooperate, diplomats said.
The two allies plan to complete and circulate the draft next week to the three other permanent members of the Security Council — France, Russia and China — diplomats told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. France, Russia and Arab nations oppose a new resolution.
"Nothing is on paper yet," said Rick Grennel, spokesman for the U.S. mission at the United Nations, who confirmed American and British diplomats had met on a resolution.
Iraq's surprise announcement this week that it would accept the return of international weapons inspectors nearly four years after they left has divided the council, with the United States stepping up preparations for war even as weapons inspectors planned their return to Baghdad.
President Bush said yesterday that Iraq would not "fool anybody" with its about-face and predicted the United Nations would rally behind the
United States despite Iraq's "ploy." His administration disclosed plans for moving B-2 bombers closer to Baghdad and preparing for possible war to remove President Saddam Hussein.
But at the United Nations, plans moved ahead for the return of weapons inspectors and U.S. allies on the Security Council seemed determined to stave-off a resolution.
In Moscow yesterday, Vladimir Lukin, a deputy speaker of the Russian parliament's lower house who once served as Russia's ambassador to the United States, said Russia would likely compromise.
The existing resolution gives inspectors 60 days from the time they begin work on the ground to give the council a work program
Western diplomats said the U.S.-British draft would lay out a tighter timetable to get Iraqi compliance and include new instructions for weapons inspectors.
Ambassadors said it was important to give chief weapons inspector Hans Blix time to do his job.
Blix, who is in charge of dismantling Iraq's biological and chemical weapons and the longrange missiles to deliver them, has scheduled talks with Iraqi experts in Vienna, Austria, to work out details for the inspectors' return. The arrangements should be completed by Oct. 6.
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