Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three years. In Ramallah, an Israeli settler was shot to death while shopping in the open-air market. The shooting prompted the Israeli army to impose a curfew on the town and on nearby El Bireh. To protest the death, the Jewish settlers' council decided to establish an illegal settlement on an isolated hilltop northwest of Ramallah. Their bulldozers and tractors were leveling the site when Israeli soldiers arrived. Acting on orders from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the soldiers ordered the settlers to leave. Said Otniel Schneller, the West Bank Settlement Council director: "We decided to move out because...
After visiting Reagan at the White House, Colombian President Belisario Betancur, a key figure in the Contadora group (Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and Mexico), which has been pressing for a regional settlement, called Reagan's attitude toward the Nicaragua situation "positive" and "constructive," but carefully avoided any comment on the proposal...
While support for guerrillas is a useful instrument of U.S. policy, it can rarely be decisive all by itself. Rather, covert action can serve to soften up a situation so that it will be more amenable to a negotiated settlement, or to direct military intervention. Sooner or later the secret agents and jungle warriors must give way to the diplomats and politicians--or to the generals...
Despite the $484 million settlement, the troubles at the Electric Boat division were not over. In 1981 the company's own inspectors discovered that workers had neglected to make critical welds in several submarines and covered up the errors with faked welding reports. The fiasco forced Electric Boat to reinspect all the welds and make repairs costing about $100 million. To recoup its loss, General Dynamics decided to turn to, yes, the Pentagon. The company argued that the Navy was liable for paying the repair bill under an obscure but standard clause in the submarine contract that called...
...followed, there were scattered incidents of black turning on black, and at least 20 more people lost their lives. In several townships, crowds set the homes of black policemen ablaze in vengeance against those they took to be stooges of the white minority government. In Kwanobuhle, an impoverished black settlement of about 50,000, a mob descended upon the home of a black town councilor, hacked the man, his two sons and two employees to death, torched the house, then dragged the charred corpses into the open, where youngsters chanted around them. "Enough!" pleaded Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail. "This...