Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision," the Senator told reporters, "has been strengthened by recent announcements out of the Administration, the evident intention to escalate and to intensify the war in Viet Nam, and the absence of any positive indication or suggestion for a compromise or for a negotiated political settlement. I am concerned that the Administration seems to have set no limit to the price which it is willing to pay for a military victory...
Archbishop Makarios, the bearded President of Cyprus, is a man with a strong sense of the dramatic. Last week, after Presidential Envoy Cyrus Vance had skillfully tied the strings on a settlement between the Turks and Greeks that averted the threat of war over the island, Makarios suddenly balked and threatened to undo the whole package...
Clipping the Hawk. Before the snag, Vance had won a settlement under which the Greeks promised to remove within two months the 8,000 or so troops that they have illegally infiltrated into Cyprus during the past seven years, leaving only the 950 that they are entitled to station there under the island's 1960 independence accords. They also agreed to disband the 11,000-man Greek Cypriot National Guard, to pay damages to the Turkish Cypriot villagers of Ayios Theodores and Kophinou for the Nov. 15 attack by Greek General George Grivas and his Guards...
...Boss Walter Reuther emerged from a conference with his top aides one day last week, Detroit expected to hear the ritualistic announcement of a strike dead line at General Motors Corp. Instead, Reuther slyly proclaimed what he called a "target date" of Dec. 14. Only if there is no settlement by that time, explained Walter, would an actual dead line be set - for some time after the first of next year. Reason for the move: by avoiding an early strike, the union's 372,000 G.M. workers will be assured of their two paid holidays during the Christmas season...
...negotiations extended over "15 or 16 meetings," according to Murphy. "After reaching a stalemate on several major issues, the union proposed we appeal to a federal mediator, and we agreed. This is where the final settlement was finally reached...