U.S. and German mediators said recent progress in talks regarding a German compensation fund for World War II-era slave laborers justified a new round of talks next week. But U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat and German mediator Otto Lambsdorff said they do not believe an agreement on the size of the fund will be reached at the talks, scheduled to begin Nov. 16 in Bonn.
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