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He and his followers conducted a successful series of bloody raids on Spanish settlements in the Caribbean, culminating in the sacking of Panama, the major city of the Spanish Main.
And everybody notes that the deal could help cement the proposed $368 billion national tobacco settlement, although none of the papers gives the most obvious explanation for this, namely that at $11 billion a state and climbing, fifty separate settlements would be far more expensive.
The Americans were convinced that the British were backing Indian raids on American settlements along the Canadian border.
Any Palestinian agreement will probably require Barak to remove or consolidate West Bank settlements.
The papers explain that the government's civil fraud suit seeks to recover the federal monies spent over the years on smoking-related health care through Medicare, as well as through the budgets for military personnel and federal civilian employees, expenses not covered in settlements the tobacco manufacturers previously made of suits where states filed to recover their smoking-related health costs.