Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faced with this prospect, it would seem that North Viet Nam's wisest move would be to seek a settlement rather than invite continued insupportable losses. Yet, ridiculous as it seems, there are indications that the North Vietnamese regime is convinced that Lyndon Johnson's war policy will be overwhelmingly repudiated by American voters on Nov. 8. Hanoi, misled by the noisy dissent of antiwar groups in the U.S., may well be in for a rude shock...
That is not all of Wolfson's woes. In April, as a result of several shareholder suits, Merritt-Chapman & Scott agreed to slash Chairman Wolfson's annual compensations from last year's $525,-000 to $150,000. The settlement came unstuck when the SEC asked the New York State Supreme Court to adjourn the case temporarily. The Commission's lawyer said that it was completing an investigation that could have consider able bearing on the case. Court hear ings resume this week, and the SEC plans to return with what it calls "ma terial facts" concerning...
...those of John Foster Dulles, who opened each year's anti-admission campaign with a lecture on the unsavory credentials of the few willful men in Peking tyrannizing a nation of millions. Rusk pointed out that the Communist Chinese have decided to act as "a major obstacle" to a settlement of the war in Vietnam, and that it was bad psychology to reward them with a seat in the Assembly...
...precisely this kind of petty deception and, on occasion, even the outright denial of the obvious, that has given rise to what the Washington press corps calls the President's "credibility gap." During the airline strike, for example, Johnson blandly assured the nation that Administration-backed settlement terms were within the Government's wage-price guidelines, when in fact they grossly exceeded them. A few days before L.BJ. announced his proposals to combat inflation and tight money, he stoutly denied that he was planning any such action-though his economic advisers had been working for days to formulate...
...compensation to Filipino veterans of World War II and their de pendents, whose long-debated claims now total $800 million. While Congress will not agree to any such amount, one State Department official says that the final settlement is likely to be "a substantial...