Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enacted the necessary legislation. Nor can the Saigon government prosecute the discharged My Lai participants-even if it wanted to. An agreement signed by the U.S. and South Viet Nam prevents each country from trying nationals of the other. As an alternative, the Army may ask President Nixon to appoint a special commission to try the men under the 1949 Geneva Convention that forbids deliberate mistreatment of noncombatants in a war zone...
...Federal Government only last July took its first small step toward quiet. As a condition of getting or keeping federal contracts, companies must follow new Department of Labor rules controlling excessive noise in factories. So far, Baron's lobbying in New York helped persuade Mayor John Lindsay to appoint a special task force on noise control. Its recommendations include such specific-and belated-moves as a crackdown on rumbling trucks and roaring construction equipment...
Layoff Bonuses. Governments usually stay clear of the negotiations, except to appoint a mediator occasionally, when the bargaining is especially tough. The government contributes to labor peace through selective intervention to aid the unemployed. Sweden's National Labor Market Board has a highly honed intelligence system to warn of impending layoffs in plants. Often, the board establishes an employment office on the spot to arrange to retrain workers and find them new jobs. It pays the travel cost of interviews for job seekers, as well as moving expenses and family allowances, plus a $130 bonus for each worker, just...
Liberal Faculty members at the meeting spoke out against this slighting. After President Pusey saw that he could not prevent the Faculty from speaking out, he agreed not to appoint Harvard representatives to the Cambridge Project policy board until the Faculty has debated the matter. The Faculty will discuss the Project at its January 6 meeting...
...asked that all helpers be reclassified as painters, but the Administration said that not all would be automatically promoted. A new apprenticeship program will be open to those former helpers who wish to join. The Administration will ask the Contractors Association of Boston (3 representative for black contractors) to appoint a three-man committee to review the qualifications of present painter's helpers and recommend changes in their status...