Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After two days of round-the-clock negotiations, the school board announced a settlement under which the ousted teachers would "not be prevented" from returning and any teachers dismissed by local boards in the future could appeal to arbitration panels. The union called off its strike-but the agreement blew up when the affected teachers tried to return to their classrooms...
...took 94 other lives; in the Mediterranean, near Nice. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse (General Hurry-Up), Cogny protested angrily when superiors ordered him to hold a defensive position at Dienbienphu, which fell to the Communists after an eight-week siege. Equally bitter was the political settlement reached at the Geneva Conference shortly thereafter. Said the general: "Too many deaths, too many deaths for nothing...
...left of Humphrey's on at least two important issues. Referring to the conduct of Chicago's police, he noted that "a lot of innocent people were hurt." On Viet Nam, he conceded that Johnson's policy "has not worked to achieve a negotiated settlement" but urged all parties "to get away from this business of trying to blame one another on every tactical move...
...about Eastern Europe who have been opposed to our Viet Nam commitment to defend a beleaguered people from just such Communist tyranny. They have been unwilling to see the logical extensions of our commitments, and they foster the illusion that the Soviet Union has an interest in a peaceful settlement of the Viet Nam conflict, rather than being its progenitor...
...their homeland to work abroad for Czechoslovak freedom. A master of public persuasion, Masaryk traveled to the U.S. and argued the case for his country's freedom so well that President Wilson included autonomy for the peoples of the Austro-Hungarian Empire among his 14 points for a peace settlement in Europe...