President Clinton is scheduled to see Mr. Mubarak in Cairo on Tuesday, and will be working on ideas on the Jerusalem problem, as well as the broader settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, a senior administration official said.
Both lawsuits are widely expected to be part of a broad settlement of fraud charges between Columbia/ HCA and the Government.
But it's unclear whether Page and Cook are discussing a broad settlement of the various disputes between the two companies – most of which involve the burgeoning mobile computing area – or are focused on a more limited set of issues.
In March, Duke Energy offered to negotiate a broad settlement.
A broad settlement with JPMorgan, however, could well be a template for other settlements in the near future.
The indications of the talks between Andersen and Enron came as Andersen sought to put together a broad settlement intended to extract itself and its partners from all of the lawsuits accusing it of mishandling the accounting of Enron's books, lawyers involved in the negotiations said.
A broad settlement of those issues could be coming soon, which could open up the foreclosure pipeline again.
But it easy to imagine that in the negotiations for a broader political settlement between Mr. Karzai and the Taliban, the general could turn to Mr. Holbrooke, whom he described last week as his "wingman".
