Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the settlement wreathed King's final struggle with a posthumous victory, it did not restore racial harmony to Memphis. Negro leaders are already preparing other battles. COME (for Committee On the Move for Equality), which mobilized Negroes behind the garbage men, plans fresh boycotts and picketing in a campaign to win more jobs, better housing, and improved educational opportunities for Memphis blacks. The new labor-civil rights coalition forged during the strike may soon flex its organizing muscle on behalf of Memphis' Negro hospital workers and Negro teachers. Memphis, in fact, has become so symbolically significant...
...Decision. The carnage of Tet demonstrated to each side its own weaknesses and its adversary's strengths. With the U.S. public becoming ever more weary of war, Johnson began to talk in private of "forcing the pace" toward the settlement that has frustratingly eluded him. As his decision not to seek re-election hardened, so did his determination to make one more peace effort and to make it soon. It was, said a White House aide, Johnson's "gut decision," and it was his alone...
...North Viet Nam disengage. For this to lead to peace, formal political status for the N.L.F. would be required eventually. The Thieu government, as recently as last week, continued to insist it would never accept any coalition with the Front. There are other variations on the theme. But any settlement that promises to yield any satisfaction to both sides also entails concessions by both sides. The Communists might have to forgo their goal of an immediate N.L.F. takeover of the South coupled with a prompt and total end of U.S. involvement in the country's future. For its part...
...Mister!" Mercurial Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky was far mon outspoken. Asked by a reporter if South Viet Nam was willing to make any concessions in order to facilitate a peace settlement, he shot back, "No, Mister!"He was also adamant on the issue that troubles the South Vietnamese most: that the U.S. will try to force them to form a coalition government with the Viet Cong. Cried Ky: "If we have now arrived at the stage where we have to accept coalition under American pressure, that means we are going to die in the next five or six months...
Durban was divided into sections for whites, Indians, coloreds, and Bantus (Negroes), and Dr. Salber and her husband, also a doctor, were working in the Bantu township. Though facilities were good and the work "terribly exciting," apartheid raised moral problems. Just outside the township was a settlement of 6000 Bantu men on contract labor, brought in from all around the country. Mothers complained to Dr. Salber that their daughters were being threatened, and malnutrition was a problem among the huge colony of men. Yet to complain to the government from a medical and humanitarian point of view inevitably...