Word: restraint
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Martin Luther King saw Black history as the record of suffering, endurance, and change. It was a history of courage and of restraint. Malcolm X presented Black history as the terrible epic of constant war between Black and white. It was a history of conflict. King had accepted Hegel's view of history, namely, that there was a dialectical process of progress and growth through pain. But the dialectical idea for King, the notion of struggle, was also taken over from Gandhi and Thoreau, especially from the latter's essay on Civil Disobedience. King believed in struggle, in a kind...
...indication of China's continued restraint in dealing with the Soviets came last week. Only days after Peking sent Moscow the warm message, the Chinese called in harsh terms for the withdrawal of the U.S.S.R.'s "aggressor troops" from Afghanistan. And in a gesture apparently intended to reassure the U.S., Chinese leaders have postponed substantive talks with the Soviets until after Secretary of State George Shultz visits Peking in early February...
...secret in Western Europe that Bulgaria's secret service has tolerated the shipment of billions of dollars worth of arms from Turkey, much of it for use by terrorist organizations. The new allegations, however, raise fears that Soviet-directed terrorism and subversion reach farther, and with far less restraint, than had previously been believed. Italy's relations with Bulgaria are already badly frayed. But with so much at stake, Italy and its Western allies are prudently waiting for more solid evidence before making any additional charges public. -By Kenneth W. Banta. Reported by Barry Kalb/Rome with other bureaus
...restraint the couple exercises in selling their Scotch pine at only $18 per tree, like the no-advertising policy, stems from their philosophy that, as Mrs. Hansen says, the tree farm "just makes Christmas extra special...
...simultaneously blew up two coal-to-oil fuel installations in the Orange Free State and Transvaal regions. And the newly leaked CIA report says the ANC's "major incidents" against the state increased from 10 in 1980 to 41 in 1981. Even now, the organization exercises restraint, as the CIA points out: "It is clear the ANC could have inflicted a large number of white casualties if it had chosen...