Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to talk about all that. She's had enough of all the speculation about her appointment, and of all the writers who've made their prejudices about women sportswriters obvious in their profiles of her. Of course, one can't overlook the Times's out-of-court settlement of a 1978 class action suit charging it with discriminatory hinning and promotion practices. Or its subsequent agreement to fill 25 per cent of its senior editorial staff positions with women and other minorities. But as A.M. Rosenthal executive editor of the Times, insists. "We didn't choose a woman sports...
...lack of good Republican enthusiasm for the man who had beaten him at the polls, or for the treaty. "I applaud it," he later roared over the phone. "All three met the challenge. I hope the doubters recognize that this is the only way we can get a comprehensive settlement. I hope the radical Arabs calm down. And I hope the moderate Arabs help...
...another thing, Ball urges "an outright declaration by the U.S. that the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are not a lesser breed and that they have the right to self-determination." In the context of a final peace settlement, moreover, Ball suggests that the U.S. consider establishing a military base on the West Bank in order to reassure both sides of the American determination to help keep the peace...
...Palestinian terrorism, more internal conflict within the P.L.O. and more pressure on the Arab moderates, notably Jordan's King Hussein, who is currently siding with Syria and the P.L.O. against Egypt. The only real solution to the region's prevailing instability lies in reaching some kind of settlement of the Palestinian problem in the West Bank and Gaza. But the negotiations toward that end, even if they eventually succeed, are certain to be slow and difficult...
...P.L.O.'s conditions for peace. I have declared many times that without the Palestinian rights, without their rights to return to their homelands, without their rights for self-determination, without their rights to establish an independent state, there is no peace, no stability, no security, no settlement. My condition for peace is a just condition. I'm asking that my people, the Palestinian people, have the opportunity to live in peace in their independent state as human beings. Your President used to speak a lot about human rights, but where are his human rights when he approaches Palestinian...