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...event, the Administration's decision to get involved in the situation was belated at best. Seeking to pre serve its leverage with Yahya in hopes of inducing him to restrain his troops, the U.S. managed only to outrage India, which felt among other things that it had become the pawn in the Administration's move to use Pakistan as the bridge for Nixon's detente with Peking...
Even in scenes where the author delicately snips the buttons off her characters with scissors of irony, one senses that she would really like to cut a good deal deeper. Why does she restrain herself? She has image, language, an actor's sympathy that lets her inhabit as well as observe characters. If she had fully released her rage, this impish novel could have been a devil of a book...
...economists that it was big business and big labor-which have somehow grown powerful enough to resist normal market forces even in a recession-that created the need for controls. By reining in tightly on a relatively few large units, these economists predict, the Government should be able to restrain the rest of the economy as well. There is some doubt, though, that the 3,000 IRS agents detailed to investigate violations of Phase II rules will be anywhere near enough to do the job effectively...
...letter, claiming that Square pharmacists had confidentially reported an increase in the sale of contraceptive devices, urged that Cliffies "restrain the baser instincts of their menfolk...
...first press conference since he announced the freeze, Nixon promised that the rules of Phase II "will restrain wages and prices in major industries." His remarks left little doubt that the Administration will retain legal authority to force such industries to roll back wage and price increases that it considers inflationary, rather than relying on strictly voluntary compliance. It will probably do so by asking Congress for a one-year extension of the Economic Stabilization Act, which empowered Nixon to declare the freeze; that act expires next April 30. A similar program of firm control was also suggested earlier...