Word: drafted
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...opinion. To do the first is easy. To do the second is infinitely more difficult. But if we look ahead, it is infinitely more useful. The most meaningful test of whether the Assembly has succeeded in this task is not whether a majority can be mobilized behind any single draft resolution, but whether those states whose cooperation is vital to implement a decision will support it in fact. "Each time this Assembly makes a decision which a significant minority of members regard as unfair or one-sided, it further erodes vital support for the U.N. among that minority...
...same category as muggers and rapists. A person who pollutes the air another breathes is just as forceful and violent as a mugger who breaks another man's leg. Friedman maintains solid support of all civil liberties and solid opposition to all victimless crime laws. He is against the draft, military intervention, aid to Saigon, and the very existence...
...both ends of the political spectrum, they are flawlessly consistent. They uphold their beliefs on every issue on both moral and practical grounds. As a libertarian, Friedman constantly tries to point out the inconsistencies of the left and right. He asks how can the leftist oppose war, the draft, and anti-abortion laws on the grounds of individual liberty and an abhorrence of violence, while at the same time ignoring property rights in supporting the violence of government economic control and heavy taxation? And how can the rightist support property rights and the free market on grounds of individual liberty...
...agreement on a final draft concluded four weeks of negotiations between the staffs of Buckley, the sponsor of the original files law, and Pell, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee of Education, and will enable the senators to put the changes to a floor vote before Congress recesses...
Staff attorneys for the Children's Defense Fund--a group that lobbied for the Buckley law and has opposed Pell's attempts to amend it--said yesterday that "Wexler's draft" has "undercut" and "screwed over" the original student files law in an effort to "kowtow to places like Harvard...