Word: caution
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Amid the genuine, and in this case unexpected, pleasure of an American President's triumph, caution remains necessary. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are a long way from disarming Europe, and the SNF controversy may come back to haunt Bush. But the President at least has removed one giant question that had hung over him since the Inauguration. He can lead the Western world. Now he must continue...
...ascent to power worked a remarkable change in a man who had once seemed a gentle, if extraordinarily zealous, cleric. During the upheaval that toppled the Shah, Khomeini urged his followers to remain nonviolent. In part, this was a shrewd wish to avoid harsh military reprisals, but his caution also reflected Khomeini's temperament at that time. Abolhassan Banisadr, whom Khomeini ousted as President in 1981, notes that in the final weeks of Khomeini's exile the Ayatullah "would not even kill a fly." Yet after Khomeini became Iran's ruler, he exhorted his countrymen to kill, burn and destroy...
...scholars, though, advocate separate departments for ethnic studies. Instead, they say multi-cultural perspectives must be incorporated into the existing curriculum. Otherwise, they caution, ethnic studies will be marginalized--and lose its potential impact...
Apparently, Pauley has spent some time of her own thinking about "things." The tone of her speech will not be one of despair, but of caution about the future that is, for her, a source of concern...
...attention was riveted on the Bund, the broad avenue along the river where 100,000 protesters marched. Thus the ships neatly symbolized the peripheral role that Washington played throughout last week. With the explosion of people power, the State Department could do little but advise Beijing to use caution, and it had only a few desultory comments about the historic handshake between Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping. Finding American officials who were even slightly uneasy about the freshly minted Sino-Soviet friendship was almost impossible. Was George Bush worried? "No problem," said the President. "A healthy development," said Secretary...