Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fresh from his own trip to Europe to attend Konrad Adenauer's funeral, the President decided not to ignore the newly revived tempest over Viet Nam. Departing from the text of a speech to a group of physicists, he declared: "I want to negotiate a political settlement. But I can't just negotiate with myself. Maybe somewhere, somehow, some day, someone will sit down and want to talk instead of kill. If they do, I'll be the first one at the table...
...income families where higher education seems hardly a realistic possibility," says Thomas Dublin '68, co-chairman of the program. Challenge now screens teacher recommendations more carefully by visiting the homes of prospective students. The program has also started to recruit students from sources outside the school system--like settlement houses and present Challenge students. Satisfied with the new techniques, Challenge's directors will try to utilize non school sources even more next year...
...this outlook came to dominate the mind of American statesmanship will become evident if we recall that just in the thirty-five years from 1898 to 1933 the United States government negotiated, signed and ratified a total of 97 international agreements, most of them bilateral ones, providing for the settlement of international disputes by arbitration and conciliation. This enormous diplomatic effort occupied much of the time of such eminent Secretaries of State as John Hay, Elihu Root, William Jennings Bryan, and Henry Stimson. The measure of realism behind it may be judged from the fact that the number of disputes...
What is especially frightening, as the bombing escalates beyond what was once plausible, are unattributed comments by "American officials" that the bombing would be reduced, but not halted entirely, even if Hanoi were willing to discuss terms of a settlement. Making the bombing an element of our bargaining posture promises neither capitulation by the communists, nor a compromise peace. It implies only the traumatizing possibility of a truly open-ended war, one that could, unlike the present conflict, actually endanger America's national security...
...three were asked by the President last week to negotiate a settlement between six railroad shop unions and the railroad industry, in the hope of averting a crippling nationwide strike...