Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cautious move away from the rigidity of the past has produced some violent outcries. Last week the Prime Minister was grilled mercilessly at a press conference by hostile Indian newsmen who seemed determined to prove that she was, in effect, deserting her father's sacrosanct doctrines. "We have liberalized private investment for some things which we consider essen tial," she snapped. "Mostly to do with the production of food. We are not going to give in on any other point...
...last twelve years. Now the cyclists are demanding rights of way of their own. Their proposal is for bikeways, usually secondary, lightly traveled roads which are marked with blue-and-white signs to guide bike riders along the route and warn motorists to be extra cautious...
...problem is that consensus arises only when the issue is personal and emotional. The injustice of the Southern racial system or napalm bombs falling on South Vietnamese villages invokes immediate indignation, while the many important questions of urban renewal, for instance, call for more cautious politics. The consensus theory thus imposes a limit on the number of concerns upon which a New Left group can focus. The young Democrats (YD's), by contrast, were able to discuss such issues as foreign aid and birth control as well as the standard SDS topics of Civil Rights and Vietnam during the current...
...roots of the trouble went far deeper-to the core of the Catholic Church in Spain. Involved is a struggle between a rising new generation of social-minded priests and the elderly, hidebound church hierarchy bent on maintaining a cautious and comfortable status quo. Over the years the Spanish church-in the pay and shadow of the Franco government-has drifted out of touch with almost everything it stands for. Its religion has become one that is imposed rather than preached. "We must identify ourselves with the people, their frustrations and their fulfillment," said one young priest. "The problem...
...Parliament convened last week, Austrians braced for some political fire works. Instead, both sides proved cautious. Presenting his legislative program, Chancellor Klaus emphasized that his party had "a policy for the whole nation, including the voters of the defeated party." Among the chief goals: associate membership in the Common Market, increased economic growth, and a money-saving reorganization of Austria's nationalized industries. The opposition criticism was mild because, as the Socialists argued, the government's goals would have been much the same even if the coalition had continued. Declared Vienna's independent Kurier last week...