Word: draft
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Coming out shortly before Moshe Dayan was to visit Washington with what officials called the "draft text of a new peace treaty," the leaked Sharon plan in the beginning had caused some embarrassment in the foreign ministry. But Sharon later indicated that he had cleared his plan with Begin and it was just a question of time before it would be carried out. Whether or not the program is officially adopted by the government, a recent poll showed 82% of Israeli voters favoring some kind of settlement in the occupied territories...
...nothing to say about all the lives that went down the gutter of history or now populate prisons and asylums because of the New Left's "wisdoms" and its rock troubadours. He lists the end of the war and the draft, the wide acceptance of marijuana, and women's liberation as the New Left's enduring accomplishments. Whether these will positively shape the course of the future remains to be seen. Mr. Morrow seems unbothered by long-range outcomes. He comforts and encourages the radicals that their "cycle will surely come around again...
Back in New York, Bunau-Varilla went to Macy's to purchase colored silk for a red, white and blue Panamanian flag (which his wife sewed), and he advised Amador that the U.S. would support the revolution?provided that its leaders would appoint Bunau-Varilla envoy to Washington to draft the canal treaty. Reluctantly and a bit skeptically, Amador agreed. He sailed for Panama with Bunau-Varilla's promise of $100,000 to bribe Colombian troops; he hid his new flag under his clothing, wrapped around his torso. After arriving in Panama, Amador sent a coded cable: "Fate news...
...reader entertains the ghastly suspicion that the author has distorted her comedy in order to convey some symbolic code message. Not at all; the novel hasn't an idea in its head, and rightly so. If the Rumpelstiltskin business had been chucked out with Weldon's first draft, her account of Elsa's undoing could have scaled the foothills of superior nonsense...
...always, the U.S. has demonstrated an infuriating (to radicals) talent for absorbing and accommodating even those who began by wanting to tear the whole place down. Smoking marijuana is practically legal; the draft has been abolished. But the radical impulse is still there. A few weeks ago in Denver, the Third Annual Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies attracted some 400 electoral strategists, leftist policy intellectuals, would-be officeholders and labor organizers. The old New Left now expresses itself in a number of local forms. A man named David Olsen founded the San Francisco-based New School...