Word: settlement
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...National Case of Emergency), launched at Stanford by two Princeton transfers who said they felt "uncomfortable" over the "incredible extremism on all sides" in California. CONSCIENCE, which is organizing a nationwide "lecture-in" on Nov. 22, argues that pro tests only "discourage the Viet Cong from seeking a peaceful settlement in Viet Nam." Last week CONSCIENCE Chairman Hal Scott invaded the Vietniks' favorite stage, the Sproul Hall steps at the University of California's Berkeley campus, drew 500 listeners. A nearby rally to raise medical supplies for the North Vietnamese mustered only 100 spectators, mostly newsmen...
Nonetheless, Lyndon Johnson decided that he had to show a strong hand. He has always regretted that he did not oppose the 4.8% auto settlement of 1964 that began the round of wage increases. Since then, more inflationary tendencies have continued to appear in the economy. Johnson looked beyond aluminum to the steel industry, which many economists believed was getting up courage for a price rise, and realized that he would not be able to block any steel increase unless he did something about aluminum. Assured by Chief Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley that the aluminum industry's profits were...
Harold Wilson returned to Britain last week full of hope for a settlement of the Rhodesian crisis. He had had four days of "serious talks" with an almost endless parade of 126 leading Rhodesians, and, as he told Parliament, "no one, British or Rhodesian, has been able to hear the views of so many leaders of opinion, African or European, for very many years." Out of them had come an agreement for a joint Royal Commission that had, for the time being at least, headed off Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's threats to issue an immediate unilateral declaration...
...cease-fire between India and Pakistan last week passed into its sixth tense week with not the slightest prospect for a settlement. Indeed, if words were any measure, the situation was worse. Rising before the U.N. Security Council, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto charged India with conducting a reign of terror in Kashmir, quoting a Kashmiri as having told the press: "Indian troops have cut off the breasts of our girls and held them up saying, 'Here is your Pakistan!'" With that, India's white-turbaned Foreign Minister Swaran Singh led his delegation...
Booth describes SDS as multi-purposed, he does insist that a settlement in Vietnam must precede action in any other area. To further the war effort, President Johnson has made an alliance with Right-wing forces which has turned the national mood against welfare programs and other progressive actions. In addition, priorities on resources have been given to the military instead of advancing the War on Poverty. "President Johnson is in bed with the wrong people," he concluded...