Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Carter has shown prudence in pursuing a peaceful settlement of this crisis, he has erred in repeatedly threatening military intervention. One threat is enough. Repeated threats only serve to produce counter threats, and to limit U.S. options, perhaps forcing military action...
...Boeing Vertol Company will repair and replace the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) light rail vehicles (LRV) on the Green Line, and give $40 million to the MBTA under a settlement reached last week...
Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Barry Locke said last night the settlement money will be used "for lease or purchase of rolling stock on the Green Line...
...said the selectmen will probably ask to meet with MBTA officials hoping for assurances that Foster will spend the settlement appropriately. Locke added that the MBTA might use the funds for regular expenses and payroll accounts instead of providing better service...
...Israelis must have found last week unusually electrifying. Premier Menachem Begin's coalition lost a crucial vote in the Knesset, thereby threatening a defection that could reduce his government's majority to two. Faced with protests by fanatic nationalists over the court-ordered evacuation of a Jewish settlement at Elon Moreh, the Cabinet unanimously voted to forge ahead with new settlements in the West Bank. But the most powerful jolt of the week was a Cabinet decision approving the deportation of the Palestinian mayor of the West Bank city of Nablus. The move prompted the resignations...