Word: truce
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...bitter fight that has split Nashville's Vanderbilt University since the expulsion of Negro Divinity Student James M. Lawson Jr. for promoting sit-in demonstrations finally simmered down last week. After many abortive efforts. Chancellor Harvie Branscomb arranged a compromise that brought a truce, though an uneasy one to the campus. Lawson, who is now finishing his last three courses at Boston University, may earn his B.D. degree from Vanderbilt by either transferring credits from Boston or by taking a written exam this summer. The school has already replaced Divinity School Dean J. Robert Nelson, whose initial resignation touched...
...days with Dillon and Mitchell, Meany was persuaded to relent. The State Department agreed to investigate the complaints of the Seafarers Union and to "do what it can" to end the anti-Israel blockade. Picketing of the Cleopatra ended and the Arab counter-boycott was called off. Truce, if not outright peace, returned to the troubled waterfronts of the world...
After a treaty is signed, it will take two years or more to set up a functioning detection system. As the U.S. learned after the armistice in Korea, reaching a truce with Communists can be merely the beginning of harassments and frustrations. And even if the detection system is effective, the problem of constant patrol and vigilance is just beginning. Perhaps a greater danger than the risk of undetected underground testing is the risk that the U.S. would be lulled into relaxation by the mere existence of an agreement...
...dusty roads, on rattletrap chartered buses, walking down steep mountain paths, the Greeks of Cyprus this week practiced what their forebears invented 2,500 years ago. In the first popular elections since 1931, Cyprus got ready to become a self-governing republic in February. Under the Anglo-Greek-Turkish truce to end the island's four-year civil war, the new republic of Cyprus is to have a President elected by the island's Greek community, a Vice President chosen by its smaller Turkish community. The Turkish Cypriots, by acclamation, had already chosen that Vice President, Dr. Fazil...
...strike began after I.L.A. officials in New York and other Northeastern ports had signed a truce agreement with the New York Shipping Association to extend the current labor contract until Oct. 15, while negotiations for a new contract continued. Longshoremen, with a base pay of $2.80 an hour, were demanding 50? more. Management was offering them 30?, but the real issue was not wages. It was what the I.L.A. uses as a cussword: "automation." The shippers wanted to replace antiquated loading and unloading equipment with new devices-belt conveyors for the obsolescent cargo slings of clipper-ship days; electronic gantry...