Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...euphoria of peace "offensives" and "feelers" has ended in frustration. One year ago, North Viet Nam created a similar flurry of speculation by announcing that talks "could" begin if the U.S. stopped bombing for good. Nothing came of that, primarily because the North insisted that the basis for a settlement must be Hanoi's four-point program, which includes the demand that the internal affairs of South Viet Nam be settled in accordance with the program of the National Liberation Front. That clearly is unacceptable to both the U.S. and South Viet Nam. Yet Foreign Minister Trinh...
...suit against an American-owned newspaper that is distributed but not published in Britain-the International Herald Tribune, edited and printed in Paris. The offending column, written by Flora Lewis, appeared the same day as an unrelated wire service story reporting that Wilson had won an out-of-court settlement from The Move, a rock 'n' roll group. To promote a new record, the group had circulated a postcard showing Wilson nude on a bed with a woman labeled "Harold's very personal secretary." Wilson won an apology plus more than $30,000, which he donated...
...oblique. All the Daily Telegraph felt able to say, for example, was that the "Prime Minister's solicitors confirm that, when in New York on other matters," Wilson's counsel, Lord Goodman, "agreed to attend a meeting of lawyers to discuss the possibility of disposing by agreed settlement the serious legal complaint made by the Prime Minister against an international publication...
Last week he declared that the shortest road to settlement might lie within South Viet Nam itself-and that the two parties to travel it first should not be Washington and Hanoi but the Saigon government and the rebel Viet Cong. The trouble was that the South Vietnamese President and his colleagues -not to mention the Viet Cong-seemed reluctant to make the trip...
Preventing Erosion. Under terms of the settlement, which is expected to be ratified handily by the rank and file, the $4.68 an hour that the average G.M. worker now gets in wages and benefits would rise by about a dollar over three years. Agreement on non-economic matters was not so definite. On elimination of jobs through automation, for example, the two sides agreed to set up a committee that would merely try to prevent what Reuther calls "erosion of the bargaining unit...