Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether or not the U.S. walks in is another matter. In Washington, American officials insisted that a settlement of the Cambodian situation ought to be a precondition of any further discussions. Said one skeptic of the latest Vietnamese overture: "They like to make people think one thing, and then they will do another...
Meanwhile Senator Jones, using intermediaries, was trying to work out a settlement with Hobby. In the end, the Lieutenant Governor gave in, agreeing to stop his parliamentary efforts to save the bill. The measure was then defeated. When the fugitives returned to the senate, they were cheered from the galleries, where some spectators had donned yellow-and-black Killer Bee T shirts and a few wore fake insect antennae on their heads. The senators then revealed that the hiding place that had flummoxed the police was right in Austin, just three miles from the red granite state capitol...
...Israeli soldiers, in fact, had far more trouble dealing with their fellow citizens than with the Egyptians. Farmers from the settlement of Neot Sinai, two miles east of El Arish, refused last week to abandon a ten-acre vegetable patch that was part of the land being returned to Egypt. Several hundred militant Israeli nationalists drove into the Sinai to support the angry settlers. When Defense Minister Ezer Weizman visited the community in an effort to persuade the farmers to leave, he was spat upon and called a "traitor" and an "Egyptian agent." After Cairo turned down a last-minute...
...take life as it is given to us by others. For example, destroy local mass transit systems, promote suburban sprawl ... permit central cities to deteriorate into jungles and stimulate the automotive industry by every advertising trick known to man, and what do you get? A spread-out network of settlement, work, distribution and consumption which has become absolutely dependent on the automobile for its existence." Burnham will have none of the "pundits who blame the American people for doing what their leaders and their corporate giants had told them to do, decade after decade...
PEKING--U.S. Trade Ambassador Robert Strauss said yesterday he has given Chinese representatives three days to decide on the U.S. terms for a textile agreement, but he called chances of settlement "iffy...