Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although both sides said that there compromise in the settlement, the union's secretary, Kate White, said, "We wouldn't have stopped the strike if we hadn...
...wages, seniority, scheduling of raises, and a management request that the union post a $50,000 bond against future work stoppages. Except for wages of cooks, which she described as "not as high as we would like them to be," White said that the union was satisfied with the settlement...
...historic site is under the supervision of the National Park Service, which is creating a Sturbridge Village-like community reminiscent of the West Branch of Hoover's boyhood. Done with imagination and taste, the settlement includes the tiny, whitewashed, two-room house where Hoover was born; a Quaker Meeting House; and a functioning blacksmith shop. Recently the government bought ten little period houses where Park personnel now live. A schoolhouse is soon to be added, and there are plans for putting into operation a working replica of a 19th century farm. Even though many of the original commercial buildings...
...organize freely would permit the Communists to acquire too much power before the election. He also opposed granting outright independence to the African territories, favoring instead a referendum that would let them unite with Portugal if they chose. In recent weeks, he announced that he was taking the settlement of oil-rich Angola into his own hands, and had set up meetings with the white business community while ignoring representatives of the territory's black liberation movements...
Scarcely five months ago, following Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's triumphant shuttle spectacular between Israel, Egypt and Syria, chances for a Middle East peace looked unbelievably bright. This week, as Kissinger undertakes another flying tour to Cairo, Damascus, Amman and Jerusalem, hopes for a settlement have been dangerously tarnished. One reason is that no one seems to know how to solve the problem of the displaced Palestinians-including the Palestinians themselves...