Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam and the U.S. public. Between them-and under intense pressure from both-stood Richard Nixon. Last week he addressed those two groups in his first comprehensive statement on the war since taking office. The speech may well prove a turning point in the tortuous quest for a settlement; it showed how far the U.S.-and the Administration-had moved toward a willingness to compromise. In a sense, Johnson's war had now formally become Nixon's war. But if the President's plan ultimately succeeds, the peace will also be Nixon's peace...
Despite the hopeful signs, the thought of a permanent settlement seemed like wishful thinking in Saigon last week. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces unleashed their most widespread attack on the South-but not the heaviest-since the infamous Tet offensive of 1968. From U.S. military bases to provincial cities to the psychological payoff target of Saigon, rocket shells and terrorist bombs exploded with deadly frequency. They were followed, especially at U.S. outposts and forward bases, by ground assaults that forced many units into close combat. As a result, the American death toll for each of the past two weeks...
...Arabs created a refugee problem. This is the truth. We didn't throw them out. In 1949, immediately after the war, the Cabinet of Israel decided that within a peace settlement with the Arab countries, we will take back about 100,-000 refugees. The Arabs wouldn't listen. For 20 years the refugees were kept in camps. The textbooks printed with the money of the United Nations were full of hatred toward Israel, with wonderful arithmetic examples of how there were five Israelis, we killed three, how many are left? Now the little boy who was five...
...visualize a settlement...
What will you do if the Big Four agree on a Middle East settlement that Israel does not like...