Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike came close to settlement last month when the publishers offered the Teamsters a $30-a-week raise over three years. Teamster International Vice President Robert Holmes recommended that the locals accept it. The Teamsters at the Free Press did, but the more militant members at the News turned it down. Now both sets of strikers are as mad at each other as they are at the publishers...
...drawnout crisis," says Roy L. Reierson, senior vice president and chief economist of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. Last week Reierson added his voice to those demanding that the London gold pool be closed, and that the U.S. limit its $35-an-oz. sales of bullion to the settlement of debts with other countries. That "selective convertibility" recipe stops short of outright dollar devaluation be cause some gold would remain avail able at today's price. It would also keep U.S. gold losses to a minimum. The free-market price of gold would un doubtedly soar, but that...
...prerequisite for any real attack on the conditions and attitudes that keep black Americans economically and socially submerged. Here, Kennedy has taken a strong stand. The war, as he sees it, is brutal, wasteful folly. There is no reason to believe that he would not push for a speedy settlement in Southeast Asia. He realizes the costs of Vietnam and has admitted the shortsightedness of the policy his borther pursued before November, 1963. Kennedy knows the lessons of foreign adventurism and military overextension. And his past experience with the Pentagon and State Department means that he is unlikely...
...late, we call upon the American government to heed Secretary-General U Thant's appeal and stop all bombing of North Vietnam. We call upon the United States government, the government of South Vietnam, the government of North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front to promptly reach a peaceful settlement. [A lasting peace for Vietnam should be based upon a total withdrawal of foreign troops that will allow us, Vietnamese, to shape our future free from all foreign interference...
...hours per week volunteers. It is these students whom the Executive Committee would like to see join the Metropolitan Council Volunteer Pool. Thus far, however, no decision has been reached regarding the continuation or deailed structure of the other parts of the Tutors Committee program--tutoring in Settlement Houses, other community centers, and Companion ("Big Brother") tutoring. Wes Profit President...