Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Psychological Impact. The equal-rights amendment may not produce practical results for some time. The Senate, with the support of 83 members already pledged, is virtually certain to pass it. Three-quarters of the states must ratify it, however, a process that could take several years...
...woebegone history of most third-party movements in the U.S., the leftward alignments of Buckley's two opponents offer him a rare chance to recruit support from both Republican and Democratic conservatives. Incumbent Senator Charles Goodell was a moderate-conservative upstate Congressman when Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed him to the Senate after Robert Kennedy's assassination...
Buckley's ideas are more complex than a simple law-and-order slogan. Explaining his support for the President's District of Columbia anticrime bill, he argues: "There must be a constant balancing-we must remember the people who are the victims of crime as well as the criminals." Buckley subscribes to "subsidiarity" in government-solving problems at the lowest level possible. The doctrine is not so far removed from the New Left's idea of community control. He has somewhat complicated his Viet Nam position by arguing that U.S. troops there should be volunteers...
...William Rademaekers, "and opens a vast horizon of economic and diplomatic movement." Most important, perhaps, is the boost it gives to Britain's chances of joining the Common Market. With West Germany's strength increasing so dramatically, France is likely to reverse the De Gaulle position and support Britain's entry...
...Soviet Union, the treaty was a diplomatic victory. The Russians gained support for a European security conference, at which they hope to win the West's complete acceptance of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe and to speed up U.S. disengagement from Europe...