Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously setting up his trip to Cambodia next month, le général announced that he was ready to use his offices to bring about a Viet Nam settlement. His conditions: "the real ending of foreign intervention and the neutrality of the states in that region...
...Bastille in 1789, the tricolor blossomed over Paris, and French emissaries around the world celebrated with champagne receptions. To the French Ambassador's garden party in Peking came Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Peking had already accused the Russians of collusion with Washington for a settlement in Europe that would free U.S. troops now based on the Continent to fight in Asia. For the French, Chen Yi had a toast of his own. Said he: "I am deeply convinced that so long as all the peace-loving countries and peoples of the world unite and wage a common...
...wake of the troubles. Shocked by the evidence of repression and neglect, the following week he asked the Westminster Neighborhood Association, which runs a number of adult education programs in Watts, if he could help. He was told that there were plenty of people hanging around the settlement house with nothing to do; maybe some of them could write...
...mediating session, held up all negotiations overnight because Northwest had warned its strikers in Tokyo that they must now pay rent in advance for their company-owned quarters. At week's end, Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds, the chief mediator, reported that the settlement was "no nearer than a week...
...have underestimated President Johnson's commitment to this point. Union leaders probably planned a short strike, hoping that a walkout in the middle of the industry's money-making season would cause the airlines to cave in quickly. Management probably would not have been too displeased by an expensive settlement, since they would then be able to plead poverty when the CAB demanded further fare cuts...