Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans are in the mood to relax; they may feel that they have earned it. Much of the nation spent the spring thawing out from the coldest American winter in two centuries. Now, with a new President and a cautious Administration just entering its sixth month, the U.S. seems in full moral convalescence from the years that gave it assassinations, urban riots, a lost war, an abdicated President, severe recession, inflation and an oil embargo...
...seems to know him very well. His staff is small, and he rarely sees the press. Explains one of his assistants: "He has been a public man, but one in a cage." He has had reason to be cautious, and he knows that his country faces difficulties ahead. But he also believes that Spain's political evolution is irreversible...
...South Korea's Prime Minister Choi Kyu Hah, a genial bear of a man, calls the U.S. troops in Korea and Europe "two pillars of policy" that deter Russia from any adventures either eastward or westward. In his view, as long as both pillars stand, Russia must be cautious. If one is removed, Russia may feel free to behave differently...
...take some time before the U.S. will be able to exert pressure on a Jerusalem government that is an unknown quantity. "I hope that the election of Mr. Begin will not be a step backward toward the achievement of peace," President Carter said last week in a cautious assessment of the changeover. Added the President, "we are now assessing in a private way ... the possible consequences of the election results." Even Israel's citizens still need to sort out the meaning of what was in many ways the most extraordinary election in the country's history. In the past, when...
Delicate Hands. Nixon found Leonid Brezhnev to be much more poised and cautious than his predecessor: "Intellectually you had a man not as quick as Khrushchev, but he is a much safer man to have sitting there with his finger on the button than Khrushchev." Brezhnev is also evidence that "the new class is doin' pretty good" in the Soviet Union. He is "something of a fashion plate. He liked beautiful cars. He liked beautiful women...