Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALMOST from the moment that it started bombing targets in the North, the U.S. has repeatedly stated its willingness to negotiate peace in Viet Nam-any time, anywhere. But so far, the possible terms for a settlement have been discussed in only the most general way. President Johnson has said that South Viet Nam should be guaranteed peace, independence and democracy-the same conditions that the Viet Cong tirelessly call for. Senator William Fulbright speaks of neutralization and mutual withdrawal by U.S. and North Vietnamese forces. Senator Eugene McCarthy speaks rather broadly of withdrawing to strongpoints, reducing military operations...
...main concern inside the U.S. Government -at the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon-continues to be prosecution of the war rather than formulation of terms for peace. As far as public priorities are concerned, this is logical enough; what private thoughts the Administration has about a settlement should remain private until they can be used for practical effect. But since the war quite possibly will end by negotiation, the U.S. had better have clearly in mind the maximum goals that it aims for and the minimum terms it will settle...
...wire labor negotiations, General Motors Corp. and the United Automobile Workers last week reached agreement on a new national contract without a strike deadline ever having been set. Bargaining around the clock for 30 hours just as if they were under the gun, negotiators worked out a settlement whose economic terms were virtually identical with those won earlier at Ford and Chrysler. In fact, the accord might have come about even sooner had it not been for a number of thorny non-money issues...
What accelerated the settlement was U.A.W. President Walter Reuther's vow, in the event that last week's talks faltered, to set the same strike deadline for both national and local contracts. Rather than attempt the sticky business of negotiating those pacts simultaneously, G.M.'s new president, Edward N. Cole, pressed his men to stay at the bargaining table until they could get the national contract...
Reischauer believes America's chief hope for a tolerable outcome is "to force the other side gradually to reduce the scale of fighting and eventually to accept some sort of reasonable settlement...