Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...position I have advocated in public is that in the interests of the United States and Asian security, we should maintain troop levels in South Korea until a peace treaty is signed and the surrounding powers agree on a settlement or at least until there is a reduction of tensions on the Korean peninsula. I believe the United States has serious long term responsibilities in the area and particularly to the people of Korea and these responsibilities go beyond any particular regime. I have also taken issue publicly with criticism of the Korean government including restriction of academic freedom, trial...
...immediate environs will reunify the freshmen as a class. This should not preclude the affiliation of freshmen with Houses insofar as such an association is deemed educationally valuable or more effective in advising terms. That is, a non-residential four-year House concept may yet be desirable, but settlement of this issue, which is primarily of oreintation and advising relationships, is in some degree separable from the residence issues addressed by this plan...
...reached a crescendo in November when lawyers refused to certify $27 million in Maine municipal bonds because the lands the cities offered as collateral might not even belong to them. Several state and federal agencies ceased financial transactions in the area claimed by the tribes. The size of the settlement, and prospects for recapture of the land itself, drew thousands of Penobscots and Passamaquoddies out of anonymity. Letters deluged the Bureau of Indian Affairs from people requesting certification of genealogical ties to the tribes. Even the Department of State received inquiries from overseas...
...through the Indian territory, Canada, or the sea. Whatever the reason, Longley became scared enough to contact members of the state's Congressional delegation, to see what could be done. In response, several legislators introduced a resolution that would have limited the Indian's potential award to a cash settlement. But Congress adjourned before it could consider the proposal...
...flap illustrates a hardy truism: steel-price increases arouse more political excitement than increases in the price of almost anything else. True, the decibel level of the uproar this time hardly matched the furor of 1952, when settlement of a bitter steel strike turned largely on how big a price increase mills would be granted under Korean War price controls, or 1962, when President Kennedy marshaled all the power of the White House to force a steel-price rollback. Still, steel men note caustically, aluminum makers in November announced price increases of as much as 11 % on some products without...