Can you talk a bit about your own ambivalence on the issue of restitution?
Whenever the issue of restitution is raised by Germany, so is the "missing" Amber Room.
The issue of restitution is especially fraught for Poland, which had Europe's largest Jewish community before the war.
Our analysis suggests that raising the issue of restitution — while necessary to do justice to the victims — can strengthen support for extremist parties.
The judge said this afternoon that he had planned a sentencing hearing for April 17 but postponed that indefinitely after lawyers for the bombing victims raised the issue of restitution for the first time, saying today that they did not want Mr. Nichols to profit from any future book or money-making venture connected with the case.
In addition, prosecutors would have made a restitution order for money for the victim, but deferred the issue of restitution to the civil court judge handling the wrongful death case.
The rulings of judges, however, are also undeniably moral, bearing as they do on issues of justice, restitution and the execution of punishment.
Talks over territorial readjustments and the ever-explosive issue of property restitution could yet throw a wrench in the progress.
The affair between Julie (Hilda Cronje) and a black servant, John (Bongile Mantsai), not only crosses lines of race and class but also is informed by the complex issue of land restitution for South African blacks.
Sitting with him on a conference panel at the University of Milan on the issue of cultural restitution was Katie Getchell, deputy director of the Boston museum, who echoed many of his comments.
