Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insists that if he gives in to the three angry unions, his Phase III wage-control program will be in tatters. But with the prospect of industrial Armageddon on the near horizon, he has left a door open for himself to work out a generous 'special case' settlement for the three. Such a solution would not resolve all the demands for equality of sacrifice, but it would undoubtedly win broad sympathy...
...early September 1971, 1200 prisoners revolted at Attica prison, taking 32 guards as hostages. After four days of negotiations without settlement, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller authorized 1000 National Guardsmen to enter the prison. 28 prisoners and nine hostages were killed in the Guard attack...
Although it had other roots as well, the Zionist movement grew primarily out of life in imperial Russia. Restrictions on their geographic settlement and economic activity, as well as a religion and language of their own, made the Jews of Russia and Czarist Poland almost a nation, separate from the Russians, Poles, and other minorities around them. Although few people led particularly comfortable lives under the czars, toward the end at least, the Jews were probably most oppressed of all. Because they lived in cities, because they were traditionally the middlemen in Russia's feudal economy, and because when...
Most Zionist leaders wanted to win the Arabs' friendship, and following the lead of Ber Borochov, a Russian Marxist who had taught that the Arabs' lack of an economically distinct culture would lead them to accept Jewish settlement easily, many of them thought it wouldn't be too difficult. Nearly all of them found it hard to realize that there were two separate nations in Palestine, that they had divergent concerns and nationalisms, and that economic separatism, though it kept one nation from directly exploiting the other, was making them more separate all the time...
Officials of the Hearst Corp. refused yesterday to comment on Adams' article or on their plans for a settlement. "All I will say is that he's a free-lancer, and we bought his story," Sherman H. Saiger, an attorney for the corporation, said yesterday...