Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More U.S. aid cannot stop the fighting. Only a negotiated settlement between Saigon and the Communists-or the currently implausible scenario of an unconditional surrender by one side or the other-can do that. Hanoi still yearns for a political victory in the South -meaning, in the words of one State Department official, "the imposition of a coalition government which the North Vietnamese would dominate...
...resurgence of dissent, especially if the military situation continues to deteriorate. Any major cutback of American aid would obviously damage his position. But it might also encourage the non-Communist opposition in Saigon to work toward setting up a new government more willing to reach a negotiated settlement of the war. It is difficult to predict what the outcome would be. Certainly, the Communists would be influential in any kind of coalition government that might arise; they may well dominate it. That result would hardly please the U.S., but the only alternative is an ever more bloody military stalemate...
...Minnesota Historical Society, Senator Hubert Humphrey deducted $199,153 from his federal tax returns for 1969 through 1972. Last week the Minnesota Democrat said that the Internal Revenue Service had disallowed the deductions, and that he will reimburse the Government for the back taxes, plus 6% annual interest. The settlement will cost him as much as $147,000, according to one estimate. His salary as a Senator is $42,500 a year, but he also earns substantial amounts from speeches...
...only reasonable course left open in Cambodia [March 10] is to offer sanctuary in this country to the several thousand Cambodians who have been most clearly identified with the prosecution of the war, and to engage in negotiations for a peace settlement...
...speak, and is paralyzed from the neck down. After bringing suit against the Federal Government, charging that doctors at the hospital had not monitored the administration of the anesthesia and that they had done nothing to control the violent reaction, Fertig and his family were awarded a $1 million settlement...