Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...settlement is dying economically as well as literally. "Fukhar" means pottery in Arabic; there used to be 70 kilns in the village, employing 500 people. Now there are only two. Farmers are afraid to work their fields for fear they will step on an Israeli antipersonnel mine. At night, most of the villagers huddle inside the thick walls of St. George's Greek Orthodox Church for sanctuary. From St. George's terrace, Father Moussa Khoury points out the only glow visible in the valley below. It comes from Qiryat Shemona, the Israeli town 13 miles away. Looking...
...third week of the dispute, schools were in session under the protection of sheriffs deputies. Miners began trickling back to work after two pleas by United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller that they accept the compromise settlement. Earlier, coal operators had voiced suspicions that the book dispute was a trumped-up excuse to strike at a time when the union was bargaining for a new contract. Miller announced that a union committee would investigate the charge and would have the power to bring disciplinary action against any U.M.W. member found in violation of the union constitution. Officials calculated that each...
Eventually, Park will probably have to accept a settlement that falls short of his maximum demands. If he does not, South Korea will pay a heavy price, since it is heavily dependent on Japanese foreign aid and investment and cannot afford a total break in relations. Meanwhile, the surge of Korean nationalist feeling offers a temporary domestic benefit to Park: he can use anti-Japanese emotions to divert attention from his repressive policies at home. That, at least, was the opinion of many Japanese, who felt certain that last week's demonstrations had in part been carefully stage-managed...
...SEIU officials yesterday held their first federally-mediated negotiating session since the strike began, but failed to reach a settlement...
...terms of that settlement, later approved by the Harvard Board of Overseers and the Radcliffe Trustees, were...