Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, he warned that China is counting on a long war in Vietnam and sees nothing to be gained from a negotiated settlement. "In Peking no less than in Washington, the desire to avoid another Munich is a major preoccupation of political leaders," Halperin said...
...routes to victory." Added the Vice President: "We will remain in Viet Nam until genuinely free elections can be held. If the Viet Cong, in those elections, gain honestly a voice in government, so be it. But prior to elections, this Government will not be a party to any settlement which amounts to a pre-election victory for Communists that cannot be won at the ballot...
Denounce the Dead. Right or wrong, his clients pay for their freedom. Not long ago, Foreman pocketed $200,000 for winning Houston Oil Heiress Cecil Blaffer Hudson a record divorce settlement of $6,500,000. If his clients lack cash, Foreman accepts anything else of value. He now owns more than 40 houses and an office building in Houston, plus several hundred acres scattered throughout Harris County (Houston). His wife pads around their $75,000 home in a pair of house slippers studded with diamond engagement rings earned from his clients...
...Viet Nam is playing directly into the hands of Communist China by taking actions that lead to a steadily escalating, more dangerous, conflict." Sulzberger has disagreed: "This is admittedly a dangerous game, an experiment in gradual escalation. Yet the blank refusal of Peking or Hanoi to consider any negotiated settlement eliminates any other alternative save a disastrous withdrawal which we cannot contemplate...
Well-placed sources added that yesterday's negotiations had dealt with the substantial issues of the strike and said that a settlement to the strike could come as early as next week...