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...Deal-Great Society approach that led the nation to look to Washington for solutions is now in real-though sometimes unrealistic-disrepute. Nebraska's Democratic Governor J. James Exon echoes the new truism: "The candidate who can clearly spell out how to restrain Government and Government spending...
...Canal Zone is "just as much sovereign U.S. territory as Alaska." In fact, no treaty ever granted the U.S. complete sovereignty. Washington has been paying an annual user fee of $2.3 million to Panama, and that country's General Omar Torrijos Herrera, a military dictator, has been maneuvering to restrain outraged Panamanians from rioting over this vestige of Yankee imperialism. Wrong-headed as it is, Reagan's jingoism on the canal has apparently struck a nerve among parts of the electorate, arousing post-Viet Nam sentiments that the U.S. should not be pushed around in its own hemisphere...
...echoed the words of Councilor David Clem, who said that Cambridge presently has no control over Harvard or MIT land use and that if University property were reclassified under institutional zoning regulations could be passed to restrain construction by the two schools...
During the tense week, King Hussein sought assurances in Washington that the U.S. would restrain the Israelis if Syrian military intervention in Lebanon proved necessary as a last resort. The U.S. made no commitments, in part because relations between Washington and Jerusalem are once again slightly strained. Although Ambassador to the United Nations William Scranton vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning Israeli repression on the West Bank (TIME, April 5), Israel was still furious over the cool tenor of Scranton's maiden speech, in which he described the occupation of East Jerusalem as "interim and provisional...
Second, it is true, as Bell says, that his intention (in his terms) is to separate economic "hedonism" from democratic rights and liberties, restraining the former and preserving the latter. But this is precisely what I could not grant him in the review (stated in my terms). In a society which justifies itself in terms of opportunity and mobility, we cannot restrain social groups in their economic demands--and historically "restraint" under corporate capitalism means sacrifices mainly borne by the working class--without restraining them politically. This would entail, in practice, vastly curtailing the power of the labor unions...