Word: settlements
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...used to uphold the law: however, many are quite reticent to acknowledge its use in maintaining order or setting disputes. The reason is simple enough the authority force in law enforcement activities is conferred by legal sanctions. Yet no clearly articulated legal sanctions govern police maintenance of order and settlement of disputes Despite the absence of guidelines, force is occasionally used--at times wisely and appropriately, at other times unwisely and inappropriately. Clearly a goal of public policy should be to decrease its unwise or inappropriate use. The problem is that it is precisely this failure to acknowledge...
...ending El Salvador's four-year-old civil war. Representing the provisional government of President Alvaro Magaña, the Peace Commission insisted that the insurgents take part in the national elections that are scheduled for early next year. The guerrillas, however, were still holding out for a settlement in which they would be given a share of power before having to participate in any elections. They also demanded that future meetings be held in El Salvador, a move that would give them added legitimacy. The leftist coalition predicted that talks would continue despite the present impasse, but Peace...
...almost two months to the day after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.-immediately prompted, at home and abroad, deep doubts about the stability of America. Many saw the unleashing of a dark, latent psychosis in the national character, a stain that had its start with the first settlement of a hostile continent. For the young people, in particular, who had been persuaded by the new politics of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy to recommit themselves to the American electoral system, the assassination seemed to confirm all their lingering suspicions that society could not be reformed by democratic means...
Moderate Zionists wanted to make a settlement which would let them go back to the job of building Israel, free of Arab attacks. Already, however, some extremists have been advising the Jews to grab what they could. Last week, Irgun Commander Menachim Beigin said that he would stop underground activities in Israel, but he warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work in the fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned the Israelite government not to make "further...
...there is hope, U.S. officials have recently indicated that some sort of compromise on the negotiations is not out of the question. If Soviet paranoia can be assuaged by good-faith negotiations, perhaps a settlement can be had. And if the West can start to redress the conventional imbalance in Europe, the nuclear question would certainly become easier to handle, if not to solve...