Word: settlements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Savory Settlement. The Bonin Islands, which include the bloody battleground of Iwo Jima where 21,000 Japanese and 4,189 American Marines died in early 1945, is a craggy archipelago of little modern-day strategic value, though it is just 700 miles southeast of Japan. Originally settled by 19th century seamen, including two New Englanders (many islanders still bear such old American names as Savory, Webb and Robinson), the islands are currently used by the U.S. only for a small naval and weather station, whose total complement is no more than...
McCloskey's cause was aided by an army of young volunteers who saturated the district with campaign literature and followed their leader's 18-hour-a-day campaign pace. While McCloskey called for a negotiated settlement of the Viet Nam war and gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops, he rejected the wording of San Francisco's Proposition P, which called for a unilateral, immediate pullout. The issue had lost 2 to 1 in San Francisco a week earlier, and San Mateo voters would undoubtedly have rejected it even more decisively had it been on their ballot...
...upshot of this hardened attitude may be to "make a negotiated peace impossible for some time to come," concludes Kennedy. Even so, and even though a negotiated settlement would entail the risk of an eventual Viet Cong takeover, he holds that peace talks are the only way out of the war. "Withdrawal is now impossible," he says, because it would "damage our position in the world." As for outright military victory-the only other alternative-that goal "is at best uncertain and at worst unattainable...
What comes into your mind when you think of a settlement or neighborhood house? Basketball games, museum trips, and some young Vassar graduate helping kids with their psychological problems...
...Three that has yet to come to terms with the union on a national contract. As the richest, it may hold out against some of Reuther's demands-even to the point of risking a strike. But Reuther, cheered by last week's settlement, predicted that "there is a Chrysler in both Ford and G.M.'s futures...