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...Japan in the United Nations: A Framework for Evaluation" is the title of a lecture to be delivered by Sadako Ogato, an envoy at the Japanese mission to the United Nations. The lecture is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, in room 2, 1737 Cambridge St. Joseph Berliner, a Brandeis professor, will give "A Sovietologist's View of China's Economy: Report of a Visit" at 1 p.m. in Room 3, 1737 Cambridge...
Working within the framework of a traditionally Democratic state, Sears said he hopes that the voters will avoid voting strictly on party affiliation. "The people must elect those individuals who know what they are doing," he said...
...think that Sadat was wrong in making this calculation. The Camp David "framework" document does provide an abstract outline that points in the direction of a concrete answer to the hopes of the Palestinians. For the first time in a while it reintegrates into the diplomatic dialogue adherence to U.N. Resolution 242, as well as the commitment to resolve the Palestinian issue "in all its aspects." It also calls on Egypt and Israel to formulate concrete "modalities" for negotiations over the status of the West Bank that will include Palestinian representatives, and that will give the West Bank Palestinians veto...
...would seem therefore that even though there is no hard-and-fast guarantee that a Palestinian state, or even the promised "self-ruled entity," will grow out of this framework, it is in the interest of the moderate Arab states--Jordan and Saudi Arabia-to try to work within it. It would also appear in the interest of the more radical Arab parties--specifically Syria, with its influence over the PLO--not to sabotage it. The Arabs have nothing to lose now, since with Egypt committed to a separate peace they cannot hope to confront Israel militarily for some time...
...there are two problems. One is that for the time being this "framework" is just words. The other is that Begin has already begun to re-interpret several major concessions--on the moratorium on West Bank settlements, and on Israeli military withdrawal from the West Bank--in a way that gives reason to wonder whether it will ever be more than words. It is therefore legitimate for the Arab states to be keeping their distance from the Camp David agreements, at least until they hear spelled out in more detail what the specifics of the West Bank negotiations...