Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second largest in the country. Some were Tutsi, but many were Hutu who feared that the rebels, now controlling much of eastern Rwanda and threatening to capture Kigali, would exact revenge for the massacres. One U.N. peacekeeping official, however, observed last week that "the Tutsi have shown remarkable restraint -- there's been no ethnic cleansing in the Tutsi areas. They are not doing the kind of killing that the government is doing." In all, about 1.7 million Rwandans, out of a population of 8.1 million, have fled their homes. Most remain within the country, dodging the army, the gangs...
...government, however, is a completely different story. When Congress wastes taxpayers' hard-earned income, it can simply raise taxes. The government has no restraint to its tax-and-spend wishes. Because of this, it's no surprise that both taxation and spending have gone up and up ver the past few decades...
...time for giving credit to those who played a part. Credit lies overwhelmingly, of course, with those leaders and people in South Africa who resisted the tide of violence and forged forward with democracy. At times, a tide of violence seemed ready to overwhelm the transition. It was the restraint of leaders and the courage of citizens that made peaceful elections possible...
...massacre obviously affords these leaders an opportunity to rail against Israel, and it will take a large measure of restraint to pass up the chance. Palestinian leaders must not try to use the massacre as an excuse or breaking the agreements that have been worked out with Israel...
...this country, off the hook. It is an invitation to euphemism, as Farrakhan cheerfully showed. We all should know what each of us thinks, and draw our conclusions. The advertisement in which the Anti- Defamation League reprinted Kallid Abdul Muhammad's little catalog of hatreds was brilliant for its restraint. It was an exercise in clarification. It said to its readers: here is prejudice, measure yourself by it. If it made some (but hardly all) black leaders trim and squirm, well, that was clarifying...