Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McGeorge Bundy. But he is probably the most astute negotiator who has ever served as Secretary of Labor. President Kennedy once dispatched Goldberg to New York City to avert an imminent strike by the musicians in the Metropolitan Opera. According to press reports, Goldberg almost single-handedly molded a settlement in time to let the show...
...continually stressed, as Rusk has not, the need for a political solution through negotiations "that will not sacrifice the vital interests of anybody involved." More important, he called for "international supervision to make sure no segment of South Vietnamese civilians is denied a proper place in a peaceful settlement." Apparently, this means that the Viet Cong, as terroristic and Communistic as they may be in Washington's view, will be ensured a major role in a peaceful South Vietnam...
...time he wasn't a mediator or adversary in a domestic labor dispute; he had involved himself in the more subtle--and far more perplexing--world of international politics. Unlike American labor-management disputes, international opponents find it difficult to agree on ground rules, much less what terms of settlement actually mean...
...hope, in the absence of all information, for the best. But many of us, I'm afraid, don't expect the best, and doubt the sincerity of the United State's moves towards negotiations. Because the war aims of our government seem to us incompatible with any genuine political settlement, we are afraid of another so-called peace offensive, like that of a year ago. And so I want to ask you some questions, Ambassador Goldberg, about American war aims. These seem to include two most crucial aims: the establishment of a non-Communist government in the South...
...this--I did make a speech at Howard in which I stated our peace aims in Vietnam. In that speech I said "The U.S. seeks a political solution, we do not seek a military solution, we do not seek the unconditional surrender of our adversaries, we seek a settlement in which terms will result from genuine negotiations, a settlement whose terms will not sacrifice the vital interest of any party. Now about laying down arms.... I don't know how you bring about peace if you don't lay down your arms. Possession of arms is inconsistent with bringing about...