Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General U Thant, neither the most impartial nor the most precise of observers, said that Viet Nam may prove to be "the initial phase of World War III." In the Senate, Republican Cooper feared that the U.S. may be approaching the "point where the last possibility for a peaceful settlement of the war will be foreclosed...
...area bulldozed flat and made into a "death strip" in which anything that moved would be machine-gunned, mortared or bombed to bits. To accommodate the displaced villagers, the government is hastily building its 336th refugee camp a few miles to the south in the Cua Valley-a makeshift settlement of 200 large tents, one for every 100 refugees...
...program it to delete parts of the picture. Two M.I.T. political science students fed 300 variables from two dozen small wars into computers to predict the outcome of the Viet Nam war. Their less than sensational finding: if both sides follow present tactics, the war will move gradually toward settlement...
...shop-craft unions has already been delayed three times by Government fiat,* and the wage dispute has been picked over by two separate mediation panels. Johnson's latest formula would deep-freeze the deadlock for another 90 days, while a new five-man mediation board sought a settlement. If there were no voluntary agreement by the end of that period, the outside mediators would dictate terms binding on both sides until January 1969. Then-after the next presidential election-the enforced truce could well be derailed once again...
...island's 13,800 square miles are arable; for centuries, that land was held by landlords and worked by tenant farmers. The Nationalist government of Chiang Kaishek, under a land-reform program, distributed small plots to the tenants-and encouraged landlords to invest their settlement money in industry. Now, with farmers keeping 80% of their crop v. 43% in the old days, rice production has increased from 20 tons an acre to 34 tons. Seeking to profit from a semitropical climate that allows four harvests a year, the government encouraged the island's 835,000 farm families...