Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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July 17: Names of released U.S. airmen announced over tea. Hanoi drops insistence on a South Vietnamese settlement "in accordance with the program" of the N.L.F...
...Rafferty, the ultra-conservative Republican nominee and a strong "law and order" candidate, would be helped immeasurably in his lagging campaign with an efficient settlement of university disorders by the National Guard. Not only would the crisis vindicate his more extreme anti-civil libertarian pronouncements--now under heavy attack from liberal republicans--but it would place his opponent, Alan Cranston, in an extremely difficult position...
...immediate cause was a perceptible move toward negotiations with Israel. In indirect contacts in New York and London, both sides spelled out in more detail than ever before their terms for a settlement. Israel offered to with draw from most of the occupied territory and to give Hussein custody of Jerusalem's Moslem shrine. The sticking point remained Jerusalem itself. Israel insists on retaining the Old City, while Hussein demands its return, as well as repatriation of Arab refugees...
...obvious that Hussein will somehow either have to cow the fedayeen or bow entirely to their will, forgoing any chance of peace with Israel. Last week the largest fedayeen organization, El Fatah, for the first time called a press conference. Its spokesman declared its total rejection of any political settlement in the Middle East. As Hussein returns to his capital this week, the King must be only too well aware that his grandfather, King Abdullah, was cut down by an extremist's bullet during a visit to Jerusalem...
Some union teachers cooperated with aroused parents in setting up emergency classes outside the schools. At P.S. 41 in an affluent Lower Manhattan neighborhood, 540 students attended classes in churches, settlement houses and colleges. At the elite Bronx High School of Science, parents and nonstriking teachers forced open a basement window to enter and conduct classes. Parents who did break into schools were advised by Board Member Galamison to "sleep-in to be sure the schools re-open on Monday...