Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children's art center needed a ceramics teacher, the camping assocation was looking for exra counselors, and for office help to cope with a flood of applications. The...Red Cross was looking for volunteers for their blood-donor room. A neighborhood settlement house needed a group woker...
...affecting the outcome and that the U.S. had neither a vital interest nor a commitment to either side in Cambodia's internal fighting. Defenders of aid echoed Ford's claim that the funds were needed to sustain the government troops until the rainy season, when a negotiated settlement could be sought, thus avoiding a "bloodbath" that might be inflicted by rampaging rebels. The Administration had also argued that failure to help a friendly government, even in a losing cause, would undermine faith in the U.S. from other allies elsewhere in the world...
...subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee came from Delaware Republican Pierre S. Du Pont. After voting earlier against aid, he provided the majority vote for a compromise package of $82.5 million spread over 90 days and tied to monthly reports by Ford on progress in seeking a negotiated settlement. All military aid would end June 30. Du Pont, 40, argued that this would be more useful in achieving peace than an abrupt cutoff of help...
Almost certainly not. According to Pentagon officials, it would only be a matter of time before South Viet Nam's forces would be forced to surrender to the Communists; at best, Saigon might be able to negotiate a settlement, but only on Hanoi's terms...
...prohibitive to the average book-buyer, book stores and librarians afford ample opportunity for opening one of the volumes, to whatever page; the experience is bound to be illuminating. "Notable" in fact is a broadly used term to describe these women. The grande dames of the suffrage and settlement house movements, the notorious popular figures such as Lizzie Borden and the legendary women like Betsy Ross whose significance lies more in myth than reality--all of them share the pages of Notable American Women...