Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...isolationists and columnists such as Walter Lippmann-not to mention Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh-were right all along in arguing that the U.S. has no business in Asia. If that feeling becomes general, the U.S. will be forced into the trap of seeking a negotiated settlement from a position of weakness-which at worst will give South Viet Nam to the Communists as effectively as any military defeat...
...recent negotiations with the same militancy. But no matter how militant and emotional Quill has appeared in public, the observers said that he has always been rational and skillful at the bargaining table. In this instance, however, he has appeared irrational and obstinate in asking such a high settlement, a $180 million package...
That last bitter issue was finally ironed out last week. Kohler agreed to pay some 1,400 former strikers a fat Christmas gift of $3,000,000 in back wages. The company will also fork over $1.5 million in pension-fund contributions. The settlement, tied to a new one-year contract, was sealed by U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey and Kohler Vice President Lyman C. Conger with a handshake. Despite the most extensive boycott campaign ever mounted by organized labor, the effect of the long dispute on the company was hardly shattering; Kohler today is still a leader...
...fourth point involves "the settlement of the internal affairs of South Vietnam by the South Vietnamese people alone, in accordance with the program of the Viet Cong's political representation, the National Liberation Front." Ever since April, American observers have puzzled over the term "in accordance with." Does it mean a complete Communist take-over, or a coalition with the NLF represented, or perhaps merely social reform? According to the New York Times of Sept. 5, "the United States suspects that this [fourth point] means a coalition including Communists, probably one dominated by them...
...statement, quoted extensively in yesterday's New York Times said in part: "As we understand this policy it is intended to achieve a negotiated settlement, in which the people of South Vietnam will have the opportunity to determine their own destiny through free elections, protection for opposition parties, and a free press...