Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antitrust violations, but so too could individual consumers who join together in class actions. Businessmen fear that the bill would engulf many companies in harassment suits. Often, such suits amount to little more than blackmail: plaintiffs know that companies would rather agree to an expensive out-of-court settlement than endure years of costly litigation...
...Carter Administration is coming under increasing pressure to adopt the shortsighted position of support for continued white domination in Rhodesia. In a shocking display of cynicism and ignorance about Africa, the Senate recently voted to endorse the "internal settlement" and the so-called "elections" engineered by Prime Minister lan Smith. Massachusetts Senator Paul E. Tsongas, in opposing the Sentate bill to send an observer team to those "elections," compared Senate recognition of the white-dominated regime to the Tonkin Gulf resolution of 1964, which gave Congressional support to the escalation of the Vietnam...
Even a cursory examination of the facts shows the farcical nature of Ian Smith's "settlement." According to this arrangement, the whites control the key ministries (including the military and police), along with 28 per cent of the legislature (although whites make up less than four per cent of the population), thereby holding effective veto power over any significant legislation. Moreover, the most important black organizations--those which make up the Patriotic Front--are excluded from the government and denied all political rights to operate. Ian Smith has steadfastly refused to negotiate with guerilla leaders...
Motzfeldt, a seal hunter's son from Qassimiut, a southern settlement, sets the first priority as fishing rights. Greenlanders now have exclusive rights up to twelve miles offshore, but Motzfeldt wants this extended to 100 miles. He threatens to pull out of the Common Market, to which Greenland reluctantly belongs through its link with Denmark, "if we do not get satisfaction" on fishing...
...former lieutenant colonel who resigned from the Army in 1947 after marrying Phillips Petroleum Heiress Elizabeth Phillips, was best known as a maverick Oklahoma presidential elector. In 1960 he ignored his pledge to Richard Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd. Last week a court approved a settlement in which Irwin will be paid $1,600 a month by his exwife, as long as he remains unmarried. She herself had proposed a payment because of his lack of income. "It was just something I wanted to do," she told newsmen. Nevertheless, the settlement occurred only two months after...