U.S. and German negotiators reached an agreement that paves the way for payments from a $5 billion German fund for Holocaust-era slave laborers. “I am very pleased that a major hurdle” has been cleared, President Clinton said after the two sides found a way to provide German firms with a virtual guarantee of immunity from future lawsuits.
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