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...Administration experts have already started speculating about the shape of Phase 2. There will be neither a return to the pre-freeze status quo nor permanent imposition of a thoroughgoing control system. Instead, the President is likely to pick one or more intermediate devices within the first 60 days of the freeze period, thus leaving the final 30 days for setting up whatever administrative machinery is required. He will probably make use of wage-price review boards for various industries, selective controls for others, economic sanctions through withholding or awarding Government buying contracts, and just plain jawboning. Quite possibly...
Peking's fears are reciprocated by the Russians. Even before a Nixon trip to Peking was in the offing, observers felt that the Soviet preoccupation with China was a principal reason the Russians were eager to stabilize and formalize the status quo on their western flank. In recent months the Soviets have moved for a settlement on Berlin, reiterated their desire for a European Security Conference aimed at recognition of the existing borders of Eastern Europe, and cooperated with West Germany's Willy Brandt in negotiating the Treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, both of which formalize existing boundaries...
...Soviet desire to speed up the Berlin negotiations has become increasingly evident. An agreement would clear the last remaining hurdle for their cherished European Security Conference, aimed at nailing down the status quo in Eastern Europe and getting international recognition for East Germany. It would accelerate the opening of NATO-Warsaw Pact talks on troop reductions in Central Europe. Finally, it would prompt Brandt to seek Bundestag ratification of the nonaggression treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, which have been delayed pending a Berlin agreement. Whether such a settlement happens this week or later, the talks have certainly come a long...
Word and Revelation. To be sure, despite all the coup attempts, the status quo has hardly changed throughout the area. Still, a familiar sense of roiling unease pervades the Arab world. In Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a sad and disillusioned T.E. Lawrence accused the Arabs of being "as unstable as water," incapable of ever pulling together to create a great state. More recently another British writer, James Morris, mused in the quarterly Horizon: "It may be that the Arabs will never constitute a single nation-that their true strength will remain metaphysical, spiritual, the Word and the Revelation...
...domestic applications involve slightly different situations, and although Sharp never really develops the use of his theory here, it can be inferred from his explanation of the invasion model. In the domestic cases, the opposition is an established system, the status quo, rather than a new invader. Perhaps the most important result of this difference is that changing domestic conditions, because of their long-term nature, will seem far less urgent than fighting an outside aggressor...