Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sheets of Shrapnel. The North Vietnamese had a more pragmatic view of U.S. policy. Having repeatedly and unequivocally rejected all logical conditions for a settlement, they took the precaution of assembling around Haiphong and Hanoi one of the world's most lethal concentrations of antiaircraft guns and missiles. Haiphong's precious complex was guarded by 56 multicaliber antiaircraft guns and seven SAM sites. Hanoi's installation bristled with more than 90 ack-ack guns, countless massed machine guns and nearly a score of missile sites. How heavily defended the targets were-thanks to the help of Moscow...
...Paris at week's end (replete with a small Siberian bear in his baggage) was the key question of a Soviet withdrawal of forces from East Germany. De Gaulle clearly would like to see such a first step toward the dissolution of that obstacle to a European settlement, and the U.S. has indicated that it would consider a quid pro quo pullback of its own. The matter may very well be on the agenda of the Warsaw Pact powers when they meet this week in the Rumanian capital of Bucharest. If so, the seeds of cold war disengagement that...
...economy perhaps as much as $300 million. There was no reason not to, since the seamen had obtained nearly everything they wanted: a reduction of the work week to 40 hr. by next June (meaning more overtime), plus the promise of a whopping 48 days of annual leave. The settlement will increase the shipowners' labor costs at least 9.5% over a two-year period, shattering Wilson's 3.5% annual-increase guideline against inflation. Even so, the Communists and many of the more militant union members were still not satisfied, and might vent their unhappiness with wildcat strikes...
Command Performance. When leaflets began to appear in Jordanian army barracks demanding Hussein's abdication, the King decided it was time to act. He alerted military units and ordered top intelligence operatives to cancel trips abroad. To woo the refugees, he offered them permanent settlement in Jordan and announced that Palestinians living abroad would no longer need visas to enter Jordan. Into Hussein's palace last week streamed delegations of Jordanian notables to pledge their loyalty to the crown. It was a command performance: some who did not show up have been arrested. There was no doubt about...
...point peace program for ending the government's bloody, five-year war with the 1,000,000 fiercely independent Kurdish tribesmen living in Iraq's mountainous northeast. For years the Kurds have been demanding a measure of autonomy from the Baghdad government, and Razzak realized that a settlement might well make Aref and Bazzaz so popular as to be almost invincible...