Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once again thwarted Soviet designs. Instead, the declaration reiterated Brezhnev's call for a pan-European "security conference" aimed at the simultaneous dismantling of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. When Brezhnev first proposed the conference in March, he wanted to keep the U.S. out of any European settlement. This time, the U.S. role was purposely kept ambiguous. In any case, there was no indication in Western capitals that the NATO nations were ready for such a conference just...
Before emplaning in New Delhi, Indira gave her countrymen a sample of what she would be saying to her hosts. Speaking on All India Radio, she called for the Geneva Conference co-chair men, Britain and Russia, to reconvene the conference immediately for a negotiated settlement of the Viet Nam war and pledged that India, as chairman of the conference's International Control Commission, would aid in policing a Viet Nam ceasefire. She also extolled India's traditional policy of joining neither Eastern nor Western blocs. "Nonalignment," she said, "can harmonize the tensions which grow out of changing...
...then, the strike? Labor experts say the walkout resulted from a blend of union politics, large airline profits and attempts by the Johnson Administration to keep the settlement within its anti-inflation guidelines...
Terming the strike "unnecessary and unjustified," Neustadt said in a statement that "the differences between the parties simply do not justify delay. These differences are not so great as to impede settlement were there a will to settle...
With the announcement that the New York Newspaper Guild and the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union had reached agreement "in principle" with the publishers of the World Journal Tribune last week, New York's two-month-old newspaper strike seemed to have taken a long stride toward settlement. But there was many an acrimonious argument left to be resolved. And the Guild negotiators were obviously in no hurry to call a general meeting where Guildsmen would ratify the "package" that had been so laboriously worked...