Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson's trip to the Far East has only given mobility to the inconsistency and confusion of America's Vietnam policy. At every turn, diplomatic overtures for a negotiated settlement are neutralized by a renewed emphasis on the military struggle...
...also the overriding issue during Gromyko's 1-hour 45-minute talk with the President, and U.S. officials concluded from what was said that Moscow would like to see a settlement there, but will not lift a finger toward that end until Hanoi gives the go-ahead. Leaving the White House by the back door, Gromyko headed for the State Department for a shrimp and lamb dinner with Rusk. The talk centered on prospects for a nuclear-nonproliferation treaty. "Gromyko made it very clear," said one official, "that there will be no agreement, now or in the future...
...union coalition led by the 79,400-member International Union of Electrical Workers and its new president, Paul Jennings, who was negotiating his first big contract. Jennings demanded reduction of regional wage differentials, arbitration of all contract grievances and a huge, 7% cost-of-living escalator. In the settlement - still subject at week's end to approval by the I.U.E.'s conference board - the union surrendered on the first two points, agreed to a 3½% escalator. In all, the three-year contract will cost G.E. about 5¾% a year in higher pay and fringe benefits...
...Labor Department building where, under the anxious eye of Administration mediators, they finally hammered out their agreement. For months, labor-management analysts had been saying that the G.E. contract would set the pattern for more than 30 major industries over the next year. When last week's settlement was reached, it was difficult to see how it could set any sort of pattern. In fact, it was hard to tell...
...best, is infinitely deeper and wholly more ambitious than early Grenier poems, which tended to be terse conversational fragments of point-blank incorporations of the physical environment, piece by piece. It presents motion without the encumbrances of consecutive common-sense description, and uses syntax without bowing to it. "First Settlement and After" is a brilliantly integrated "topical" piece, just as cinematic as the other...