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...plans for a multilateral force of Polaris-armed surface ships simply as a device to give West Germany a finger on the nuclear trigger. Predictably, the Communists also refused to accept the Johnson Administration's proposed pact for renunciation of force in territorial conflicts, since it would specifically restrain them from abetting the Berlin dispute and subversive wars in South Viet Nam and elsewhere...
Their gravest blunder, and in retrospect the least excusable, was the notion that they could participate--even lead--in whipping up the most extreme and uncompromising attitudes among their constituents and local party delegations, then restrain these attitudes in time to avert misfortune.... By going so dramatically and forcefully on record in favor of the extreme position, Davis and his colleagues encouraged, if they did not ensure, the political result they did not really want...
...suit also asks the court to restrain local officials from intimidating or obstructing the efforts of citizens to register and vote, and from interfering in the pursuit of other constitutional rights...
Congressional hearings last week revealed considerable opposition to the Federal Reserve Board's discount-rate hike on the part of Congressmen who fear that it may restrain domestic economic expansion; the Board itself is known to have split over the move. While supporting the increase on the ground that it will affect mostly short-term borrowing, Walter Heller, the President's chief economic adviser, showed his concern about any further rate rises: "Clearly, this is no time for tightening long-term credit...
...breakthrough in missile delivery systems, which would not be covered by the test ban. In any case, nuclear technology is now so advanced that weapons such as the anti-missile missile can be developed entirely in the laboratory. Furthermore, no Western statesman believes that a test-ban agreement will restrain the French or Chinese from testing nuclear weapons at will, or even slow the spread of nuclear arms to other nations...