Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think employees are very happy with what they got," said Richard A. Russell, president of the local Independent Maintenance and Service Workers of America. "I think both sides thought it was a fair settlement...
...extra $10 per employee in medical insurance and a more comprehensive disability plan were also included in the settlement, Russell said...
...Wellesley Administration] seems to have made no provisions in case of a strike," added Louise Dean Williams, news editor of the Wellesley News. "They are so confident of making a settlement, they have not said a word...
...part it is the power of veto: the P.L.O. is widely thought to have the ability to upset any Middle East peace settlement by terror attacks. But also someone has to speak for the Palestinians, and for all the P.L.O.'s divisions, no realistic substitute has yet been found. Says one U.S. diplomat: "The equation has not been changed. You cannot say, 'These bozos have no place.' No one in the West Bank or in Gaza or anywhere else is saying, 'Let's finish with the P.L.O.' " So the P.L.O. lurches and stumbles...
...officials at the State Department, who consider participation by moderate elements of the Palestinian camp to be crucial to any future settlement, feel that writing off Arafat is far easier said than done. He is, in many ways, a Lazarus, continually belying his obituary. Despite the embarrassment and setbacks it has suffered, the P.L.O. has not stopped being, as one U.S. diplomat put it, the "only available symbol" to most Palestinians of their national cause...