Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ceremony formally established the Executive Council, the four-member group that is to govern Rhodesia for the next nine months, while the transition to black majority rule under Smith's "internal settlement" is worked out. Although some diehard whites hurled accusations of "sellout" at Smith, other whites-and many blacks-were enthusiastic. Sithole, who was once convicted of plotting to murder Smith and two members of his Cabinet, declared: "Zimbabwe [the African name for Rhodesia] is here...
...what extent the black ministers are able to exert real authority, since the Rhodesian bureaucracy could be effectively ruled for a long time by the white civil servants who have always run it. The council also faces hard decisions about how to bring about the internal settlement's promises of amnesties for guerrillas, the release of political detainees and rapid removal of racial discrimination. Only when Smith has won his referendum from whites-a process that he said last week, to the surprise of his black colleagues, may be delayed for six months-will he be able to tackle...
COAL. Administration officials are concerned that any coal settlement will worsen the wage spiral. Says Brill: "There are contracts for 740,000 construction workers coming up between March and June. I just hope they don't read the papers, because a lot of their wives are going to be around reminding them of that 38.8% [prospective coal wage-and-benefit increase] over three years." In addition companies will also bid up the price of nonunion coal, switch to higher-priced fuels or make up for lost work by scheduling costly overtime when the strike ends. Those moves could boost...
...Navy, which thought it was close to a settlement with General Dynamics, the move came as a shock. The Navy immediately threatened legal action. Most likely, it will seek a court injunction ordering General Dynamics to continue building the submarines. The Los Angeles class (SSN 688) nuclear subs are sleek 360-ft. vessels designed to attack surface ships and other submarines, and are the U.S.'s answer to a relatively new class of Soviet subs. Only two of the submarines involved in the General Dynamics contract have been delivered; the remaining 16 are in various stages of construction...
...social sciences and the humanities. But with the loosening of requirements, the growth of specialized courses and the permissiveness of the 1960s, the general education idea all but disappeared. Easy courses that could be used to satisfy the requirements, such as "History 1380: European Oceanic Discovery, Trade and Settlement, 1680-1815" (dubbed "Boats" by irreverent students), mushroomed. Says David Riesman. Harvard professor of social sciences: "There was a feeling on the part of the faculty that too much had been given away...