Word: zoning
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Waffled Position. The U.S. sent Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Joseph J. Sisco skyhopping through the danger zone between Athens and Ankara to work out a solution. His chances of success were slim, however, because the U.S. had appeared to waffle all week on what position to take on the crisis involving two of its allies...
Washington's final policy, announced earlier this month at Caracas, neatly satisfies all the domestic dilemmas. The U.S. urges that coastal nations be given 1) a twelve-mile territorial sea, and 2) a 200-mile-wide "economic zone" for exploitation of minerals and fish-all contingent upon free transit of ships through all straits. Nations bordering on the sea would control fish species classified as coastal (cod, haddock) and anadromous (salmon and other varieties that breed in fresh water and spend most of their adult lives in the open seas); they would have first rights to harvest these species...
Pete V. Domenici, 42, an all-conference pitcher at the University of New Mexico, found the political strike zone in 1972 when he won a seat in the U.S. Senate. The son of Italian immigrants, Lawyer Domenici was elected a city commissioner in Albuquerque in 1966, city chairman a year later, and he pushed hard for Model Cities and urban-renewal programs. Though he lost a gubernatorial bid in 1970, two years later this once liberal Republican endorsed right-wing positions against gun control and abortion and won 54% of the vote in his Senate race. In his rookie term...
...Buffer Zone. Quneitra's importance for the moment is primarily symbolic. The new buffer zone that runs through the territory from north to south has deprived the town of its old strategic position as a major crossroads and access point to both northern Israel and the Damascus plain. Economically, the city will be a burden on the Syrian government for some time to come, although in the long run the agricultural potential of a fertile, well-watered area-good land for growing fruit, wheat, barley and beans-should contribute significantly to Syria's economy...
Criminals continue to smuggle out stones, and hijacking is common. The shoulders of the main road between the mining zone and Bogota are dotted with crosses that mark the graves of those who lost their lives and their booty to pistol-packing esmeralderos. Last year, for example, a gang called La Pesada (the Heavy Mob) held up a caravan of smugglers working for El Ganso (the Goose), took their emeralds, and machine-gunned five of them to death...