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...Roman Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 301 published official price lists that included artichokes and transportation by camel; any gougers were executed. The most recent American experience with general controls was President Nixon's 1971-74 program of freezes, followed by varying degrees of restraint...
...traits that have recently helped Carter--his restraint and caution--could once again turn against him. Carter still has the problems he had as a candidate in 1976. Unlike Kennedy, he has no solid power base he can count on; Kennedy was beating him in the South 2-1 in October. If the hostages should die or events turn against him, Carter could be in trouble...
Wishing to avoid a replay of the previous week's catastrophe in Guatemala, where a police attack on the occupied Spanish embassy resulted in 39 deaths, Salvadoran authorities kept their security forces away from the scene. Right-wing terrorists showed no such restraint: shortly after the embassy seizure, a leftist doctor was gunned down at his clinic; members of an ultraconservative group threatened to execute three kidnaped Communist leaders and burn down the embassy if the occupiers did not withdraw within 24 hours. Before that deadline was reached, the militants at the embassy freed seven of their hostages...
...Soviets did show a certain restraint by merely banishing Sakharov, instead of putting him on trial. Said one State Department official: "Being exiled to Gorky is a little like being sent to Detroit; it ain't great but it ain't so bad." Still, the Soviet press attacks on Sakharov suggested that he might ultimately be charged with high treason. The government newspaper Izvestia, for example, claimed that the physicist had "repeatedly blurted out things that any state protects as an important secret" to U.S. diplomats and correspondents. Some Soviet officials, however, assured Western journalists that Sakharov would...
...Should OPEC countries show restraint in oil pricing...