Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they could obtain small concessions from us before talks began, they would be able to achieve more and larger concessions from us once they were under way. If our Government desires that Viet Nam be another Korea, then it should agree to any locale. Hopefully, they have a better settlement in mind, and will stick to their guns...
Union President Beirne, who had been predicting an "overwhelming win," seemed to be moving closer to a settlement at week's end. And he needed one to get himself off the hook...
...Kirk, or Truman, or anyone high in the Columbia administration had had the respect of the students, he could have personally spoken to the demonstrators--much as Dean Glimp spoke to protestors at Mallinckrodt last October--and perhaps achieved a bloodless settlement. The sad fact, however, is that the president of Columbia cannot communicate with his students at all, and was reduced to a surprise show of force. The bloodstains are testimony to Kirk's failure to function as a president...
...committee, which recommended the tripartite commission, called its plan "the last possibility of a peaceful settlement...
Strongest Weapon. In keeping with that new-found restraint, Nixon urged a moratorium on criticism of U.S. foreign policy by all candidates during the period of negotiation before talks on a Viet Nam settlement. Chiding Eugene McCarthy for his demands that Dean Rusk resign, Nixon added: "The one man who can do anything about peace is Lyndon Johnson, and I'm not going to do anything to undercut him." Yet Nixon made it clear that division within the Democratic Party is one of his strongest weapons. Flying on to Michigan, where he conferred with Governor George Romney (but came...