Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hispanic fire fighters called the Vanguards. The Vanguards charged the city with discrimination in hiring, assigning and promoting fire fighters in violation of both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Constitution. Cleveland, which had unsuccessfully litigated similar issues for eight years, agreed to a courtapproved settlement under which the city was required to give half of all promotions to minority fire fighters. The white-dominated union asked the Supreme Court to overturn the consent decree. By a 6-to-3 vote, the Justices ruled that lower-court judges do have broad discretion to approve such consent decrees...
...This decision," said Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich, "recognizes that the local governmental agencies need the flexibility to settle complex civil rights litigation short of trial when the settlement is in the best interests of both parties." Still, the sailing for the Cleveland Vanguards might not be all that clear. Promptly after the decision, a lawyer for Local 93, Robert A. Dixon, said the union would return to district court and pursue civil rights actions on behalf of individual nonminority fire fighters...
...temporary accord will remain in place until Dec. 31. Meanwhile, trade officials will try to hammer out a permanent pact. "It buys time," concluded Frans Andriessen, vice president of the E.C. commission. Said a pleased Yeutter: "U.S. exports will be unharmed while we negotiate a fair settlement...
...federal action involves divvying up 1.8 million acres of disputed grazing and farm land in northeast Arizona. At the heart of the controversy is a Navajo settlement in what is supposed to be Hopi territory: Big Mountain, a juniper-dotted ridge about 50 miles east of Grand Canyon National Park. It is a place of endless sagebrush and soaring golden eagles, undergirded by rich seams of coal and uranium, where a band of perhaps 1,000 or so Navajo has vowed to resist relocation. "To move away is to disappear," says Pauline Whitesinger, an elderly resister with an easy smile...
...influence over Israel. Therefore the U.S. and the Arabs still need the help and cooperation of each other. But this is not much comfort at a time of such desperately flagging spirits. Surveying the political landscape last week, a senior British diplomat concluded, "The prospects for a Middle East settlement are worse than they have been for a very long time...