Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program, as outlined in "Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech," throws challenges to both right and left. To mollify Labor's vociferous left-wingers, who are nettled at Wilson's continued firm support for U.S. policy in Viet Nam, Wilson pledged to work toward "a negotiated settlement of the conflict in Viet Nam." But he simultaneously angered Britain's powerful trade unions by promising to introduce legislation that would hold wage increases within certain limits. Government pressure to hold down wages might well bring on a spate of labor strikes...
Under the new plan, students will work intensively with small groups of children in the settlement houses starting next fall. The volunteers will work in pairs and be responsible to student coordinators. Each of the four Cambridge settlement houses will have two coordinators...
They would meet once a week, and be in frequent contact with the professional staff of the settlement houses...
...order to deal with issues involving all four settlement houses. Rindge Jefferson, an employee of the Alliance, would head the project, and meet often with student coordinators...
...bombing in the North, Lacouture believes, is ineffective and aggravates a system of reprisals: We bomb; they infiltrate and terrorize. The settlement of the Vietnamese conflict, which is rooted in local issues, can only be approached through direct negotiation with local revolutionary elements...