Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anglo-American plan is to bring about majority rule on the basis of one-man one-vote at the earliest moment, the sooner he damn well understands it, the better." Carver is convinced that the current peace proposals are "the last chance for a just and peaceful settlement in Rhodesia...
Although the AIP does not accredit schools formally, it does "recognize" professional degree granting programs. In order to receive recognition, the CRP must prove, among other things, that students in the program become acquainted with the physical, social, economic and ecological "process of human settlement," Robert Brown, staff director of the New England River Basins Commission and a member of the National Education Development Committee of AIP, says. Students must also acquire first-hand experience with "the planning process" and the techniques of professional urban and regional planners...
...view of the Middle East after nine months in office is that the area is in an explosive, "unsafe situation" of no war, no peace that endangers the domestic political situation of Arab moderates like Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and heightens the possibility of another oil embargo. Settlement is imperative now, as Carter told the U.N. last week, because "of all the regional conflicts in the world, none holds more menace." In the U.S. view, three problems have to be settled somehow?territory, peaceful relations and the Palestinians ?and the Administration blames Israeli intransigence for much...
Shuttle diplomacy, however, proved to have its limitations. By the time Cyrus Vance succeeded Kissinger as Secretary of State, all sides seemed ready for a comprehensive settlement. The Arabs realized that a return to Geneva offered the alternative to a war to recover occupied territories. The Israelis perceived it as the only way to obtain true peace. But what of the status of the Palestinians? Two years ago, the Brookings Institution, in a study report on the Middle East now famous as "the purple pamphlet," had called for an independent Palestinian state or entity as a possible solution. Among...
...exporters rushed container ship deliveries through the ports before the deadline. Although past dock strikes have frequently been ended by Taft-Hartley injunction, the Carter Administration has pledged to keep hands off for the moment to allow the free collective-bargaining process to work. If there is no quick settlement, the I.L.A. threatens to extend the strike to other types of vessels besides container ships. Oil tankers, which haul the nation's biggest import, would not be affected (no longshore labor is required to unload them), but the bulk carriers that haul grain, a huge export item...