Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with "any government at any place at any time." He said that he had sent the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg, to New York with a letter requesting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to use all his best offices to try to achieve a peace settlement. He even mentioned the terms laid down by Hanoi last April, terms then indignantly rejected by Secretary of State Rusk, as conditions that should not even be discussed.* Said the President: "We are going to continue to persist, if persist we must, until death and desolation have...
...optimistic. Official Washington also does not anticipate a strike, but figures that if a stoppage does occur, it will be brief. Pittsburgh insiders doubt that any prolonged shutdown would be tolerated by an impatient President during a Viet Nam emergency; they would not be surprised to see a settlement calling for a 4% rise in wages, which would further dent but not necessarily destroy the Administration's 3.2% guideline...
...these, as in many other ways, the U.S. displayed its determination to carry on a war in Viet Nam until a satisfactory settlement is won.* Items...
...Gonna Move In." Limited disarmament was only a stopgap. McKeithen wanted civil rights demonstrations-which had been specifically sanctioned by federal court order-ended for 30 days so that a durable settlement could be sought. From the state capital at Baton Rouge, he sent his personal plane to Bogalusa to fetch A. Z. Young and Robert Hicks, Voters League president and vice president. "If we don't find the answers in 30 days, you can start demonstrating again," McKeithen told them. He vowed to rid Bogalusa of two of the noisiest white agitators: "I'll have them...
...many months the New York Times has consistently and firmly deplored U.S. policy in Viet Nam. It has repeatedly argued against escalating the war: "The continued bombing of North Viet Nam makes progress toward a peaceful settlement-however far off it must necessarily be-more difficult rather than less, harder rather than easier." It has never tired of proposing peaceful approaches to North Viet Nam, even suggesting that another suspension of bombings might cause Hanoi to "take some face-saving peace initiative of its own." It has been willing to make more of a compromise at the negotiation table than...