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Although Tackle Jim Burt danced last week with the customers (whether they were from New Jersey or New York), most of the Giant veterans have shown a restraint born of hard times. End George Martin says, "The defense we've played the past two weeks has been so incredible, Harry Carson and I keep thinking we're going to wake up and be 3-12-1 again." Elway's less lionized counterpart, Phil Simms, 30, still refers to "the anxiety of being a Giant. Jeez, it's been hanging over our heads for so long. The distant past, the recent...
Except, it now seems, for colorization. Moreover, whenever bluenoses demand restraint against the porn and violence that are the staple of popular culture, they are met with "Who appointed you guardians of the public taste? Let the people decide. If they want junk, that's their prerogative. What did we fight two world wars for if not the right to buy Penthouse at the 7- Eleven?" But not, you see, for the right to rent a colored Casablanca...
...police showed extraordinary restraint in controlling the crowds. Authorities kept track of the marchers' progress from a dozen police vehicles equipped with two-way radios, but made no effort to block the marchers except at the State Guesthouse in western Peking, where public gatherings are strictly forbidden. The ranks began to thin when Peking University Vice President Sha Jiansun announced over a police loudspeaker that all student detainees had been released. By the time those who persisted had completed the ten-mile trip to Tiananmen Square at 3:30 a.m., the size of the crowd had dwindled to only...
...minded" U.S. Journalist I.F. Stone as saying that the Chinese demonstrations were a "comfort to dissidents elsewhere." VOA officials defended their decision to broadcast the remark on the grounds that support for the protesters from Stone, a longtime sympathizer with the Peking regime, was news. For all their cautious restraint so far, China's rulers last week seemed to be casting an increasingly disapproving eye on the actions of their unruly children...
...seminar at the Academy of Sciences, where he was applauded by his colleagues. On Thursday, Bonner insisted there would be no further visits for the rest of the week. The next day Sakharov sat for interviews with two U.S. television networks, again with no signs of censorship or restraint. While the years in exile have clearly taken their toll on Sakharov's health, they have just as clearly failed to diminish his spirit...