Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nature of the interim government. The provisions in the settlement for white veto power and control of the army and security forces of the transitional government will seriously undermine the ability to produce effective majority rule. Majority rule can mean many different things in practice--Smith has not yet accepted the principle of one man, one vote, for example--and a government with a white veto power and white monopoly of legal coercive force could easily produce a constitution which is not truly democratic though it is nominally committed to majority rule...
...wealth and effective power remain concentrated in the hands of a white minority. It is unconscionable that wealth and power accumulated under explicitly racist and exploitative conditions should be allowed to control the country's future development. Similarly, there is a danger that the development fund provisions of the settlement will be used to preclude any experimentation with non-Western models of development in Rhodesia...
...hours," reports a U.A.W. negotiator, "and nothing would be happening. We even offered some concessions on minor issues, and they wouldn't bite." Ford made its final proposal the day before the strike deadline. After 90 minutes of pro forma wrangling, it was clear there would be no settlement. The next day, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock called a strike in time for the evening TV news. "Ford," he declared, "has been unresponsive and unwilling to engage in serious bargaining." Sidney McKenna, Ford's vice president for labor relations and its chief negotiator, insisted that the company had presented...
Both candidates favor using U.S. pressure on Rhodesia to move toward "majority" (black) rule and on South Africa to abandon apartheid. Both want the U.S. to work with all parties toward an overall settlement in the Middle East?even Kissinger agrees that his old step-by-step technique is outdated?and both risk offending some Jewish voters by accepting the view that Israel should give up substantial territory that it seized from the Arabs during the 1967 war in return for some kind of international guarantee of its safety...
...support of the Moslems in Lebanon to active intervention on the side of the Christians. The new deal is basically limited to the Palestinian guerrilla issue. It may not last; it may not lead to any broader agreement. But it does suggest at least a possibility for a peaceful settlement of the entire Middle East struggle...