Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to thrive on his exhausting schedule. Again and again he appeared on television-reasonably clear-eyed and full of confidence-to encourage and inform New Yorkers. One day he spent almost 18 marathon bargaining hours at the Americana in what proved to be a futile hope that a settlement was near. Between the hours devoured by the strike, he discussed with aides some of the issues that will face his administration: the city's $200 million deficit, his plans to streamline the government, appointments to key posts. He even found time to slip away to the City Athletic...
...Sticking Point. Everywhere the U.S. missionaries went, they presented a 14-point itemization of what the U.S. considered the essential elements in any peace settlement in Viet Nam. Penciled by Dean Rusk, they were, in effect, the U.S. conditions to Hanoi and Peking for ending the bloody war before it escalated further-and a rationale for the rest of the world...
Egypt's Nasser, no notable supporter of the U.S. in Viet Nam, offered his good offices in the search for a settlement, and immediately ordered Egyptian diplomats to contact Hanoi. His enthusiasm stems in part, no doubt, from a desire to enhance his own image as an international statesman. But the government press went a bit beyond mere self-serving. "Scorn and skepticism in the Communist camp notwithstanding," noted the Egyptian Gazette, "no head of state would send special envoys to a dozen world capitals, as President Johnson has done, if he had no intention of suiting his actions...
...only so long as they are essential for the protection of countries." Hanoi, of course, does not concede that Viet Cong infiltration or subversion is a form of aggression from which South Viet Nam requires protection. An international control commission or peace force to supervise and police a possible settlement has been suggested as a way out, but hardly any serious observers believe that this would work in the long run. The possibility is also being advanced that the U.S. for the time being hold on to the one-third or so of South Viet Nam's territory that...
...striking, most public employees now have almost the same rights as private employees in at least eight states-California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Wisconsin. Such states have begun to use many techniques to promote bargaining-for example, fact-finding reports that rouse public pressure for settlement, binding arbitration on grievances arising from signed contracts, and advisory arbitration to settle new contract terms...