Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...examine and possibly rewrite the reforms. But if I read the recommendations that they finally agreed on correctly, what they said was that the '72 reforms were essentially right. I don't have any quarrels with what I assume--what I believe--to be the so-called compromise settlement. It seems to me to be basically a ratification of what we agreed on four years...
...Indiscretion. The appeal then was filed as originally planned. Before it was heard by the Supreme Court, however, the Justice Department worked out an out-of-court settlement allowing ITT to retain the Hartford firm-its priority aim-but to divest itself of most of Grinnell Corp. and all of Canteen Corp. Some outside business and legal experts felt that a Supreme Court decision might have been rougher on ITT. But White House and Justice Department officials have called it a good settlement for the Government, a judgment with which fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox concurs...
With all these fronts quiet, diplomats began to take up where the generals had left off. To them was given the job of trying to create a peace settlement that could be as dramatic as the war itself. The short-term problems created by the war and the intensified hatreds built up over 25 years made the task difficult. But there were some opportunities, and along with them there was hope...
...also provided antitank weapons and new "smart bombs," such as the Walleye and the Rockeye, that the Israelis have never had before. At the same time, however, President Nixon had pressed so vigorously for a cease-fire that his actions rekindled latent Israeli fears of an imposed settlement. Mrs. Meir had come to Washington to find out what the President had in mind...
...eagerness of both governments to end the affair, if only for economic reasons. The South Koreans are heavily dependent on the Japanese economically, while the Japanese were getting jittery about their vast investments ($350 million) in South Korea, which are now greater than those of the U.S. The settlement cleared the way for a long-delayed ministerial conference to decide on new Japanese aid commitments. Moreover, it allowed the Park regime to pass the blame to an expendable underling, and permitted the Japanese government to find "cause for congratulation" that "the victim of the crime has regained his freedom...