Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During an Asian tour designed to bring his country a little farther out of the diplomatic tortoise shell into which it retreated after World War II, Sato declared: "If there is any suspension of the bombing, there should be a firm assurance that this would lead to an eventual settlement." In this, he echoed the privately held, if rarely voiced view held by practically every Asian leader...
...policies." Of those questioned, 59% opposed his Viet Nam policies outright and 58% called on the U.S. to enter into negotiations unconditionally. The national board of the 55,000-member Americans for Democratic Action promised its support next year to "whoever gives the best prospect for a settlement of the Viet Nam conflict"-and it was obvious that Johnson was not likely to be the choice...
...United Nations, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban sternly rejected any multinational effort to mediate a settlement as merely providing the Arabs with a shelter against "the necessity of peace." Then, flying from New York to Strasbourg to address the Council of Europe, Eban turned to a more hopeful future by proposing an economic union of Israel, Lebanon and Jordan-a notion that even he had to admit wryly was "perhaps Utopian." Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad's reply in the U.N. was an attack on the U.S. for adopting "a position of alignment with Israel and hostility toward...
...around the legal ban against public-employee strikes, the unions have labeled their walkouts "mass resignations" and "professional study days." The courts have issued injunctions anyway, but the unions block the injunctions with appeals and indifference. They are rarely punished, the reason being that as part of the eventual settlement the unions obtain a promise that the government will help bury any legal consequences that might otherwise proceed from the strike...
...LPIU settlement raised the salaries of the union's 34 members, all employees of the Harvard Printing Office, to a level comparable to those of employees in area commercial shops. Under the 18 month contract, employees received immediate wage increases and will receive another general increase on November...