Word: restraint
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Hagerman said, also, that the Ad Board has "no interest which is sufficiently compelling to warrant attempts at prior restraint of non-violent symbolic speech protected in the courts by the First Amendment...
...Italian press, never renowned for its restraint, tackled the story with gusto. Turin's La Stampa carried a headline about "poison salad on the table." Public fears grew when one newspaper erroneously reported that infant mortality was widespread in the tomato-growing area. Although the Italian government gave the crop a clean bill of health, public uncertainty lingers. Francesco De Lorenzo, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Health, declared that the state had tested the samples with procedures identical to those of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and had found no traces of the pesticide above .05 parts...
Calls for restraint often precipitate panic in this country--panic by special interest groups. How many times have we heard that student aid cuts would "devastate" higher education as we know it? How many times has Caspar Weinberger '38 informed Congress that one, less dime for defense will surely invite a Russian invasion? And how often do we hear that any cut in the near-bankrupt Social Security program would loss those over 60 into the streets? Every group depending on the government for its livelihood claims that any cuts in its programs would devastate everything this nation stands...
...backed it up by military action. But those criticisms were balanced by grudging commendations from some of Reagan's most severe critics. For example, New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, who rarely finds anything good to say about the Administration, wrote that "Mr. Reagan deserves praise" for his restraint. In a more partisan vein, the College Republican National Committee began selling, for $1 each, red and white buttons with the simple message "427 DAYS." That is the difference between the 444 days of captivity endured by the hostages seized at the U.S. embassy in Tehran...
Reagan's quiet words also underlined the plight of the "forgotten seven" hostages, those Americans randomly kidnaped in Beirut during the past 15 months and still held captive. The President seemed determined to set a tone of restraint, not chauvinism. "Even the band was unobtrusive," said one Reagan aide. Still, the White House had recruited a handful of Capitol Hill interns to pass out tiny flags and neatly hand-painted signs to the crowd. Most read WELCOME HOME, but a few were not so neutral. THANKS RON said one, and a banner read THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT...