Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador-designate George Ball warned Hanoi that "if they think that this kind of military operation is going to result in improving their bargaining position, they gravely misconceive the attitude of the U.S., the power position of the U.S., or the determination of the U.S. to see an honorable settlement...
...York Times reported yesterday that Mark Rudd, spokesman for the strikers and head of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, had made the offer because only the board "has the power" to arrange a settlement...
Rudd was quoted by the Times as saying, "We would like to meet with the trustees in order to begin a settlement. We hope this would be a first step in the effort to settle the dispute." Rudd's comments came at a news conference Saturday...
...weeks earlier, had been on the urban crisis and caused few ripples. Now he spoke about Viet Nam, a subject on which he had been silent for two years. He proposed no radical departures, attempted instead to camp on unexceptionable middle ground. The U.S., he maintained, must seek a settlement "whose aims and guarantees safeguard the freedom and security of all Southeast Asia." The "Americanization of the effort, military and civilian, should be reversed." At the same time, he argued, Washington must somehow establish a more representative government in Saigon; military strategy must stress security for the population rather than...
John Endecott, sometime Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, has come to the settlement of Merry Mount, near Wollaston, Mass., with the intent to chastise its inhabitants. Merry Mount is anathema to the Puritans because it is an enclave of happiness, fostering a live-and-let-live philosophy, indulging in such rites as dancing around the Maypole. Its leader, Thomas Morton, flauntingly lives with the daughter of the local Indian chief, and carries on a thriving fur trade with the Indians by the dangerous practice of selling them firearms and liquor...