Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just joined in a party honoring early campaign supporters in the Blue Room of the White House. Suddenly he got a message. Striding down the corridor to take his place before cameras in the West Wing, he briskly announced that the long ordeal was probably over. A "voluntary settlement" had been reached between the 165,000 striking United Mine Workers and the 130-member Bituminous Coal Operators Association. Said the President to the workers who must now ratify the pact: "This agreement serves the national interest as well as your own. If it is not approved without delay, time will...
...Kentucky, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, some suspicious rank-and-file miners were not so sure. Said Ralph Adams of U.M.W. District 30 in eastern Kentucky: "Before anybody can say anything, I'd say they'd have to wait and see what kind of settlement it is." It will not be until the end of this week that the miners' feelings are really known...
...House Friday morning. There, in the Roosevelt Room, the guests met a formidable array of brass. It included Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger and Special Trade Representative Robert Strauss. In the hour-long session, Carter set a 6 p.m. deadline for settlement, without revealing his threatened countermeasures...
Confronted by such unpleasant options, Carter had been looking in another direction: a compromise settlement worked out earlier last week by the union and 'the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co., a small subsidiary of Gulf Oil, which is not a member of the 130-company B.C.O.A...
...obvious flaw in the proposed settlement is that it is impossible to determine whether the black majority will accept the agreement, because Smith's government has never permitted free elections or any other realistic expression of black opinion. United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young has aptly criticized the settlement, noting that a settlement without the Popular Front will probably set black against black, eventually outweighing any possible benefits. Furthermore, the Smith plan does not meet the standards of the Anglo-American proposal hammered out last year...