Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reluctant Shift? The final and ultimately the most realistic route to the conference table starts in Moscow. Far more advanced, and thus with infinitely more to lose than Red China, the Soviet Union unmistakably would like to see a peace settlement-on terms, of course, as advantageous as possible to the Communist cause. Indeed, Moscow clearly wants to have the leading hand in any negotiations, but it has made equally clear-most notably in spurning the peace overtures of Britain's Harold Wilson-that the initiative has to come from Hanoi. In the wake of a secret meeting...
...alas, "such an outcome is not at all ripe today, assuming that it may ever be." The reason: the U.S. will not contemplate withdrawing its forces in Viet Nam before a "political solution" is arranged. Therefore, he concluded, France cannot think of proposing any help or mediation toward a settlement, since '"no mediation will offer a prospect of success...
Ferries & Jams. The settlement will add $165 million to the operating costs of the two transcontinental railroads...
Catch-Up. President Paul Jennings says that his I.U.E. members "know every bloody sentence" of the costly airline strike settlement. From both G.E. and Westinghouse, the I.U.E.-led unions are demanding, among other things, a guaranteed annual wage that would be automatically jacked...
...contract since late July, 23,000 Communications Workers of America equipment installers have been reporting for work on a day-to-day basis at facilities of Western Electric Co., A.T. & T.'s manufacturing subsidiary. C.W.A. President Joseph A. Beirne, who has vowed to make the Western Electric settlement standard throughout the Bell System, last week rejected a company offer of a 3.4% wage increase. Beirne has. authority to call a strike at any time...