Word: restraint
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...Iran, Carter seemed willing to bow to European pleas for restraint; even Thatcher's Foreign Minister, Lord Carrington, has been telling him that economic sanctions will do nothing to free the hostages and may help push Tehran into the Soviet orbit. But there was a chance that Carter might still call for a general condemnation by the summit participants of terrorist acts...
...have decreased the world's thirst for petroleum. OPEC's economics experts told the ministers at the beginning of the meeting that world oil production is now about 1 million to 2 million bbl. per day greater than demand. The excess output is acting as a restraint on countries wishing to push the price of oil ever higher. Said Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi oil minister, after the meeting: "The agreement does not impose restrictions on others not to raise their prices. But I don't think they are going to raise prices because...
Says Bykov: "In a world where there are many shifts and realignments, there has got to be more political restraint on the part of both the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...takeover of Indochina. No wonder there is a resurgence of feeling in the U.S. that the Soviets cannot be trusted. No wonder pro-détente liberals like Muskie are less certain than before that the Kremlin is genuinely committed to peaceful coexistence. The onus of showing more restraint is squarely on the Soviet Union these days...
...Washington, the Carter Administration nervously urged the South Korean military leaders to exercise "maximum restraint," lest their actions lead to "dangerous miscalculation by external forces"-meaning, of course, the rulers of Communist North Korea. Washington had no reason to think that the Pyongyang government was in fact trying to take advantage of Seoul's troubles, but clearly the crisis carried with it the seeds of danger for both South Korea and its allies...