Word: restrainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even though it became the custodial power of the Arab world, the Soviet Union found that it could not control events. While the Soviets had every reason to welcome turbulence in the area, they could not restrain their clients from provoking an explosion that eventually threatened a direct Russian-U.S. military confrontation?which might well have occurred if the tide of battle three weeks ago had flowed differently and Israel had been faced with extinction...
...single FCC member's mind. Last week, splitting along the same 4-to-3 lines as it had before, the commission reaffirmed its approval of the ITT-ABC get-together. In so doing, the FCC rejected the Antitrust Division's contentions that the merger might (1) restrain competition, (2) subject ABC's public affairs programming to unusual pressures from ITT's far-flung business interests, and (3) enable ITT to drain the network of capital that otherwise might go into broadcasting. Such fears, concluded the commission majority, "are too speculative or slight to weigh heavily...
...Upheld the right of a union to collect union-imposed fines from members who ignore a majority strike vote and cross the picket line. In dissenting, Justice Black noted that the National Labor Relations Act makes it an unfair labor practice for a union to "restrain or coerce" employees from such acts. Black expressed mystification as to why fines did not constitute such coercion...
...mended his shredded prestige among fellow Arabs, forced Jordan's King Hussein into a humiliating acknowledgment of his strength, and successfully challenged the Israelis-so far. In fact, Cairo's-and the world's-greatest fear is that he will be unable to restrain his more volatile allies, notably Syria and the fanatic Palestine Liberation Organization...
...strong enough to take on Israel, made the first mistake by signing a mutual defense pact with his fellow leftists in Syria. His intention was to brake the schemes of the Damascus regime to precipitate war with Israel at any cost, but the Baathists proved impossible to restrain; they kept up irksome terrorist attacks over the Israeli border. Stung by these attacks, Premier Eshkol made the second error by threatening war against Syria to stop them. Charging that an Israeli invasion was on the way, Syria thereupon mobilized its troops and called on Egypt to mobilize also under the mutual...