Word: constrainer
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...might to be nice to the Soviets, Reagan could not constrain himself when a reporter at the press conference suggested that he had heightened tensions with his previous hard-line rhetoric...
Public agonizing over the role of covert activity does not, of course, constrain the Soviet Union. There is evidence linking the Soviets to terrorist groups such as Italy's Red Brigades and West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang, as well as to elements of the antinuclear movement in Western Europe. America's Western allies, including such sturdy democracies as France and Britain, seem able to mount covert operations when necessary. "It would be illogical for us to discuss our covert operations in full view of the rest of the world," says a former French counter-intelligence chief...
...clause that says, "The international community cannot ignore the problem of the content of messages which are potentially of the gravest significance for the future development of peoples and indeed of all mankind." Western delegates fear Soviet and developing countries will use the clause to censor or otherwise constrain Western reporters. Foreign correspondents potentially could be forced to choose between abiding by the rules or abandoning coverage altogether...
...emotional man who tensely guards his prerogatives, has trouble being the type of amiable team player that Reagan likes to have around. Haig's aides agree that the Secretary harbors a pent-up frustration toward Reagan's top advisers, who lack foreign policy expertise and often constrain his actions. In a recent outburst to three of his close aides, Haig declared that the White House is a "rain barrel" of reverberating noise and that he is the only official prepared for action...
...means of prolonging that adolescent dream of another world." Foucault remains politically unclassifiable but generally within the radical left. Says he: "I lived in Sweden, country of liberty, then Poland, a country quite to the contrary, and these experiences showed me that whatever the legal system, mechanisms of power constrain the individual and direct his conduct in an effort to normalize...