Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Times reached a settlement with the last of its four striking unions early Monday, when members of the Newspaper Guild, consisting of reporters and editors, voted 226 to 121 to accept a three-year contract. The agreement calls for an average weekly salary increase of $23 in the first two years of the contract and a $22 increase in the third year...
...been American policy for more than a decade. Most of all, the Israelis seemed to resent the timing of the Saunders trip, coming as it did while the Washington peace talks were in progress and while Begin was busy preparing his people and his parliament to support a settlement...
...Carter Administration fully realized that the whole subject of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza still clouded U.S.-Israeli relations. In fact, the only real controversy that emerged from Camp David was over how long the Israelis had agreed to refrain from building more settlements. Carter said that the moratorium was supposed to last for five years; Begin later claimed that he had agreed to suspend the settlement-building program for only the expected three-month period of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations...
...negotiations to a halt, President Carter reached Sadat that evening. Next morning, Carter related at a campaign rally for New York Governor Hugh Carey, Sadat sent word that he would let the negotiators stay in Washington. Carter acknowledged that there had been "trouble in recent hours" over the Israeli settlement issue. But once again the President had skillfully stepped in at a crucial moment and saved the talks...
...since abandoned hope of convincing the Syrians, not to mention the Iraqis, that he is bargaining earnestly in behalf of the other Arab states. But he is still trying to persuade moderate Arab states that an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty would be merely the first step toward a comprehensive settlement. To make it easier for the Israelis, he is prepared to allow this point to be made in the preamble to the treaty rather than in the agreement itself. So far, however, the Israelis seem to want no part...