Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thatcher worked long hours in her study on the Queen's Speech. To be delivered at the official opening of the new Parliament early this week by Elizabeth II, in ermine robe and crown, the speech from the Throne is supposed to lay down the whole tone and framework of the new government's policies...
...work on a Strategic Arms Limitation treaty begun by Nixon and continued by Ford? The SALT I interim agreement limiting strategic offensive arms, signed by Nixon and Brezhnev in 1972, was due to expire in October 1977. Brezhnev and Ford had agreed at Vladivostok in 1974 on the framework of a new treaty to run until 1985: each side would be allowed 2,400 strategic, or intercontinental-range, weapons, 1,320 of which could have MIRVs. In January 1976, Brezhnev and Henry Kissinger had nearly reached an understanding on how to fit into the Vladivostok framework two new weapons...
Within the treaty binders was a complex series of agreements and understandings, so delicately balanced that they seemed to be an instant challenge to even the muted optimism on the North Lawn. Yet there was a framework to guide diligent men toward a genuine comprehensive peace. The treaty calls for Israel to withdraw its forces from the Sinai Peninsula in stages over the next three years. Egypt has agreed to establish peace and give Israel full national recognition. But the treaty skirts the most difficult issue: how much autonomy the Israelis should give the Palestinians on the West Bank...
While Safran agrees that the Palestinian problem has not been resolved, he stresses that the treaty "gives the parties time to accomplish what they might not otherwise have been able to. The whole framework, indeed, could unravel. But the solidifying element of the American commitment will work in favor of an agreement on the Palestinian question." And Princeton's Fouad Ajami, a native of Lebanon, who is very sympathetic to the Palestinians, admits that the treaty surely places the Palestinians in no worse a situation than they were. Says he: "They were not going anywhere before the treaty...
...programs which McCloskey would have young people join--the Peace Corps, ACTION, etc.--are based on concepts of voluntarism. And herein lies the contradiction: what a recent Library of Congress study labels the "highly questionable" constitutionality under 13th amendment which prohibits non-military "involuntary servitude." Even within a framework of military or civilian choice such as the one McCloskey offers, young people have no choice but to serve. The estimated $20 billion cost of compulsory service seems better spent on ensuring freedom of choice while making the volunteer army a more attractive alternative. The fear of the draft has returned...