Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuclear proliferation? Kissinger announced-without any details-a forthcoming major proposal for stronger international controls. Stalemate in the Middle East? Even though the Administration could not take full credit, at least it could point to the fact that the P.L.O. is in deep trouble, which could conceivably bring a settlement closer. No doubt Carter would have plenty of ammunition of his own: "Immorality" and "secrecy" in U.S. foreign dealings, Pentagon waste, neglect of Latin America. He planned to be briefed over the weekend by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, just back from a 23-day visit to China...
Late in the week P.B.A. and city negotiators agreed on a settlement giving the police a 6% wage boost retroactive to Sept. 1 this year. That would bring the base pay of patrolmen to $17,458 (plus a cost-of-living hike). In exchange the P.B.A. would agree to drop its court suit. But the P.B.A. delegates rejected the pact, and later several thousand off-duty police, some hiding behind false noses, marched on city hall. That left the city facing not only the threat of more demonstrations and rowdyism, but that gravest of concerns: some form of police strike...
This Thursday will mark six months on the picket line for 250 striking workers at Cambridge's Cambion Corporation. But, despite countless bargaining sessions and a recent attempt by the Cambridge City Council to intervene, the violence-plagued strike appears no closer to a settlement than when it began...
...contract settlement, while not exactly what the workers had originally demanded, nonetheless represents a marked improvement over the previous pact, and a victory for workers who last year took the University to task for such abuses as failing to list available kitchen jobs and discrimination against minority workers...
Polaski said that Cambion's refusal to act "reasonably" is good enough cause for the council to withdraw authorization for the special peace-keeping force until substantial progress is made toward a negotiated settlement...