Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resistance to being abused and cheated by the U.S. Government. The Indians say that they have ownership rights to over 24 million acres of land in Nevada, according to a treaty signed in 1863. The U.S. says they do not, but has offered to make some sort of settlement for the land anyhow. If the Indians cool down and keep quiet, the Government will pay them a little over a dollar for each acre-exactly what the land was worth a century ago. Since the going price is now several thousand dollars an acre, the Battle Mountain Indians have...
...They are very, very serious. They get more serious every day that we don't get some action for further progress in the settlement of some of those disputes. Every day that passes becomes more dangerous...
...economically; one of the principal reasons why the Egyptians would have welcomed Brezhnev would have been the chance to renegotiate Soviet debts. The total is a closely guarded secret in Cairo, but it has been estimated to range as high as $7 billion. Cairo is anxious for a Sinai settlement because it will generate Suez Canal revenues of at least $390 million a year and also provide a badly needed 36.5 million bbl. of oil annually if the Israelis return Abu Rudeis...
Since progress toward a settlement has been stalled for so long, Kissinger is likely to lose little time in ascertaining Egypt's response to whatever Allon brings to Washington. Thus it is expected that either Fahmy will visit Washington soon after Allon departs, or that Kissinger will fly off to the Middle East for another round of shuttle diplomacy. At week's end, though, several Arab states, as well as Iran, reacted angrily to a Kissinger statement that, "in the gravest emergency," the U.S. might consider using military force against Middle East oil producers...
...With no settlement of their six-month agony in sight, Cypriots are living through the bleakest, most bitter winter in memory. Though there have been losses and atrocities on both sides, the Greek Cypriots, who make up 80% of the island's population, have suffered the most. Terrified by reports of mass shootings and rapes by Turkish troops advancing in the north last July, some 200,000 Greek Cypriots fled toward the British base area of Dhekelia on Cyprus' southern coast. The more fortunate were able to squeeze into the homes of relatives, but nearly...