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...India's Krishna Menon to achieve it. Once the Israelis withdrew, said Lodge, the U.N. troops would be "deployed on both sides of the armistice line, particularly in the sensitive Gaza and El Auja sectors" and "at the Strait of Tiran." Their mission. he said, would be "to restrain any attempt to exercise belligerent rights" contrary to the 1949 armistice agreement: in short, it was warlike of Israel to invade Egypt, but it was also warlike of Egypt to blockade the Gulf of Aqaba...
...presidential campaign that it had brought economic stability, the new rise was a jolt. The Federal Reserve Board-with its latter-day independence guaranteed by the White House -has tried to put a brake on inflation by "tight money" policies; i.e., by making credit increasingly expensive, it hoped to restrain excessive business investment. But the new cost-of-living rise seemed to defy such measures. Reason: at the root of the rise are the succeeding wage increases won by union members in the past year-increases which have not been compensated for by higher productivity, but which have resulted...
...three per cent and companies with AA credit ratings who could borrow under Democratic administration at 2.8 per cent are now forced to put 4 1/8 per cent coupons on their bonds. The tightness of money is preventing many businesses from expanding. While high interest rates do not usually restrain consumer credit (where the effective rate now reaches 24 per cent) since the size of the payments rather than the effective interest is more important, this credit sooner or later is also restricted since the companies creating it, more sensitive to the money rates than their customers, are unwilling...
...Arab mothers are weeping this morning-but such tears bring no ease to bitter hearts." Instead of compelling the Jordan government to impose its authority to restrain the border troublemakers, com plained the independent newspaper Haaretz, Israel's policy of five eyes for an eye will undoubtedly weaken the Jordan government and consequently lessen the chances of border quiet. In Manhattan the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold warned that unless both Israel and Jordan establish "a discipline sufficiently firm to forestall" such outbreaks, the cease-fire that he negotiated last April will become a "dead letter...
...critics. Of his prolixity, he confessed that if he were reporting a crime, "the murderer would be in Canada before I had finished describing where the body was found." But he also knew that tidiness and brevity - for him - could mean disaster. To Perkins he wrote: "Restrain my adjectives, by all means, discipline my adverbs, moderate the technical extravagances of my incondite exuberance, but don't derail the train, don't take the Pacific Limited and switch it down the siding towards Hogwart Junction...