Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enclave" policy defended by yesterday's editorial could result in a negotiated settlement and also minimize American casualties, it would be an attractive idea. Unfortunately, it can do neither. The North Vietnamese would see it as an American retreat--another step toward eventual Communist victory. And with their new freedom of movement and undisputed control of almost the whole country, would become more intransigent than even. And, as the French experience showed, there is no such thing as a secure enclave in a guerilla...
...tribe's decisions about its own future and they adjust their expectations for the summer. The children of the tribe are home for vacation, restless because they miss boarding school in town. For the older teenagers especially the summer in Supai only reaffirms their determination to leave the settlement. Parents and tribal leaders, frightened by the threatened exodus of Havasupai's young blood, welcome the PBH volunteers to Supai because they are often able to convince the children and teenagers that there is something precious about their Canyon. Harvard students often claim that their job for the summer was "building...
...peaceful settlement, not a surrender. As a demonstration of American good faith in its desire for peace in Southeast Asia, the pause and the diplomatic offensive had done much to convince skeptical allies and neutrals that Hanoi, not Washington, was barring the way to the conference table. But that was about all it had achieved-and at the same time it opened a Pandora's box of problems...
...fortified village of Vinh Hoa was captured four times by U.S. troops last week without the loss of a single life. The Army, in fact, expects Vinh Hoa to save G.I. lives in combat, for the village, an exact replica of a typical Viet Cong settlement deep in the piney woods of eastern Georgia, is part of a new, expanded training program for Viet Nam-bound infantry troops...
...another cru scheme put forth by the French. Unhappy that the dollar and pound alone have special status, the French have argued for a return, of a sort, to the gold standard. The French cru would be issued in proportion to each country's supply of gold; settlement of payments between nations would be made partly in gold, partly in crus. Finally, the French want supervision of the cru system to be in the hands of the Group of Ten, which holds most of the world's reserves...