Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggesting that the Americans in North Vietnamese prison camps are not treated with deliberate cruelty, compared with the Korean War or the horrors endured by the captive Pueblo crew. Thus there is hope that the Americans in North Vietnamese prison camps will endure their bitter lot until a negotiated settlement of the war finally brings them home...
...London two weeks ago, a high-court trial ended with a landmark settlement against the Distillers Co., which made Distaval under license from its West German originators. It awarded David $49,920 and Richard $30,720. (At the request of Mr. Justice Hinchcliffe, the family surnames were not published.) Hinchcliffe explained that he had tried the cases together because David represented the most serious bracket of deformities and Richard the middle range...
...other days are taken up by group field trips to industry, trade union headquarters, settlement neighborhoods, prisons or other characteristic American institutions. But the highlight of each week is the Wednesday night public forum conducted by the members themselves on subjects of common interest. Recent panels have discussed "Is Parliamentary Democracy Dead?" and "After Vietnam, What...
...canal and make good on their threats to drive the Israelis from occupied Sinai. The Israelis also want the observers to stay, since their departure would symbolize chaos in the Middle East to the rest of the world and intensify pressures for big power intervention to force a settlement. As the third front opened up, there seemed more reason than ever for the observers to remain. The U.N. and every one else were only too well aware that the last time a peace-keeping force was withdrawn, the Middle East erupted into full-scale...
From the Bay of St. Tropez, the little settlement of Port Grimaud is a palette of ancient Mediterranean pastels; its houses are tall, tiled and close-standing; sailboat masts bob gently above their rooftops. At dusk, old-fashioned gas lamps (converted to electricity) glow softly. The impression of a quaint old setting is so strong that many visitors are convinced they are in a rebuilt medieval village. One tourist last week asked his wife whether she did not remember seeing the place in ruins five years ago, and insisted: "They've done a wonderful job of restoration...