Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy was the crisis that most worried Americans as Gerald Ford held his tenth press conference as President last week. He opened, however, with an emotional plea for Congress to approve additional military aid to tottering Cambodia. Said Ford: "We want an end to the killing and a negotiated settlement. But there is no hope of success unless the Congress acts quickly to provide the necessary means for Cambodia to survive." But Ford let it be known that he might be willing to settle for less than his original request for $222 million in aid (see THE WORLD...
...TIME'S Board of Economists, estimates that the Ullman plan would add only .6% to prices by the end of 1976 and 2.1% by 1980. Still, for all of their differences on energy, there is enough common ground to allow Ford and Congress to work out a settlement by the President's deadline...
...more hopeful about a Middle East settlement now than you were a month ago?" The question was asked at a kind of political rap session held last week in the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville, Md. The leader was Hyman Bookbinder of the American Jewish Committee's capital office. The participants were 65 mostly middleaged, upper-middle-class Jews who gather with him each month. Lately the discussion has been chiefly about Israel and its prospects for peace and survival. Bookbinder watched carefully as slowly, hesitantly, one hand after another was raised until a clear majority signified...
...prospects, in short, are bleaker than they have been at any time since he overthrew Sihanouk in 1970. Regardless of whether he receives more emergency U.S. aid, there is little he can do except try to hold out long enough to work out some sort of settlement with his enemies. "Time is running out," U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean fairly shouts to Western newsmen in Phnom-Penh these days, referring to prospects for U.S. aid. It is also running out for Phnom-Penh...
...worked hard and taken great risks and I appreciate it. I really do. It's just great . . . Just great." Rockefeller was not the only one wirh an eye on his constituency. Black Panther Bobby Scale flatly refused to present New York State Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald's settlement proposal to the prisoners. Why? Because, Wicker surmises, he did not want to appear to be dealing with...