Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, however, said that no settlement had been reached with the Brandeis administration. Black spokesman Randal C. Bailey said, "We intend to continue our struggle at Brandeis to gain effective control of the Afro-American Studies Department to be established here...
...President-elect, who has never concealed his determination to take personal charge of U.S. foreign policy, will serve, in effect, as his own chief bargainer. Nixon is fully cognizant that his No. 1 priority is Viet Nam. Key policies, both at home and abroad, depend upon a speedy settlement of the divisive war that has already claimed 30,644 American lives and drains $30 billion from the U.S. Treasury each year. Like Lyndon Johnson before him, Nixon will draft his instructions to his spokesman in Paris in minute detail. Like Harriman, Lodge will act strictly in response to his orders...
...fight against a ruling by outgoing Interior Secretary Stewart Udall blocking title to 262 million acres of federal rangeland that Alaska had earmarked as its own as part of a 1958 statehood land grant. Udall has insisted on holding the ranges in escrow until there is a settlement of claims by Alaska's 55,000 Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, who argue that the land was originally theirs. Oil companies covet leases to 58 million of the disputed acres that are part of the Arctic North Slope field, the largest known pool of oil in the U.S. (reserves estimated...
...what lines the Soviets do not clearly say-along with declarations by Arab states of nonbelligerency. The Russians support guaranteed use of the Strait of Tiran by Israel, but leave open the question of the Suez canal, loosely tying it to the beginning of at least a partial settlement of the Arab-refugees problem...
Israeli diplomats perceive an ominous threat in the very idea of a settlement "imposed" by the big powers. Should it happen, it would serve to make permanent and legitimate the Russian presence in the Middle East. And they are convinced that it would be achieved at the expense of their own hard-won security. In Washington and the U.N., they launched a vigorous counteroffensive against what they called a "Munich" settlement...