Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think all of us would hope that it was not there. And I think all of us hope for an end to the bloodshed and a peaceful settlement. But I do not see why that should really be coloring these meetings all that much...
Suddenly, a bridgehead became a blitzkrieg last week in the embattled Falkland Islands. Members of Britain's Parachute Regiment moved rapidly out of their hard-won corner of East Falkland near the settlement of Port San Carlos, taken by invasion only a week earlier, and descended 20 miles south near the settlement of Darwin. Using helicopters to hop across the boggy ground, the crack British troops confronted an Argentine garrison once estimated at about 600. There were reports of sharp fighting, and then the British Defense Ministry tersely announced that Her Majesty's troops had captured both Darwin...
...effort had seemed to offer the best chance for peace. The newly elected Secretary-General had first volunteered his services as a mediator on April 30, the day Haig announced the end of his own talks. Pérez de Cuéllar presented each side with a settlement plan based on a ceasefire, mutual troop withdrawals and an interim U.N. administration of the islands while the two nations held direct negotiations over the crucial issue of sovereignty...
...merely a disagreement on principles that pushed the adversaries into a head-on military clash last week; a combination of errors, miscalculations and inflexibility on both sides seemed to block the road to peaceful, settlement from the beginning. On the Argentine side, the military junta's own secretive, authoritarian-leadership style blinded it to international realities and locked it into a position from which retreat was almost impossible. The junta disregarded the blunt warning from Secretary of State Haig that "U.S. friendship would be at risk" if the Argentines attacked. According to Washington analysts, the original decision to invade...
...wealthy merchant of Louisville, then a river settlement of 13,000 people, spoke to him in evangelical tones of growth already seen and vaster growth still to come. Preachers of religion, on the other hand, sounded like hawkers, "businessmen of religion." And although Tocqueville found religious observance to be widespread, he judged faith to be shallow, like the belief of his ancestors in spring tonics. He and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, were supposed to be studying the penal system in the U.S., but in fact they did their best to see everything and talk to everyone. They were friendly...