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...theoretical framework provides for more open opportunity than at other institutions, and it encourages promotion," he said in early September...
...proven a master at heading off impending crisis for the time being, but the fact that few believe the Mid East will remain in peace more than a year indicates that the solution Kissinger engineered is far from permanent. Kissinger still is not willing to depart from the basic framework that has characterized American foreign policy since World War II. This is obvious in Cyprus, where he stayed by the junta that was sympathetic to the U.S. over the Soviet Union, refused to protect a democratic government that was neutral, and jumped to side with Turkey when it seemed possible...
There are no fewer than 29 proposed articles of impeachment in the five sets; many of them duplicate others but are put in a different framework. Recurring as the predominant broad charges against the President are these...
...could scarcely be otherwise, given the political and economic realities. Indeed, the seabed makes strange politics; within the general framework of rich v. poor nations at Caracas, new and complicated alliances have appeared. Who would believe a bloc including Switzerland, Bolivia, Afghanistan and Singapore, for example? Yet they have found common cause because they are either landlocked or have extremely narrow continental shelves, and they want a share of the resources of the seas. Nations with broad shelves -among them India, Argentina and Canada-are united in pressing for as big a territorial sea as possible. Archipelagic states like Indonesia...
Leadership is impossible in the abstract without a framework of more or less shared goals. The U.S. still seems able to articulate goals in general terms, but it is deeply divided on the specifics, the realities. It has, in short, lost its national consensus (although that consensus may never have been quite so solid as it has appeared in times of surface unity, such as of the Eisenhower years...