Word: restraint
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...failed: we never really tried it. The Jackson-Vanik amendment (to compel Soviets to let more Jews emigrate) prevented them from gaining favored-nation status in trade, and SALT II was already dead, at least in their eyes, way before Afghanistan. Since they were not getting any benefits from restraint, why should they restrain themselves...
Admittedly, the end of the 1960s brought forth a few sound intimations about the years that were to follow. The forecasters generally sensed that the world would get by without general war, that the U.S. and Soviet Union would manage greater mutual restraint. A number of observers guessed that American society would move into a hard-to-define period of reflection, a time for "sorting out," as Columnist Joseph Kraft called it. Economists, in any thorough analysis, were not flatly wrong in projecting continued prosperity; there has been that in spite of the discombobulations of recession and soaring prices...
...citizens of Cambridge, more than anyone else, deserve praise for showing unity and restraint in a potentially explosive situation. The city has many difficult issues to talk out in the months ahead; the most important is its commitment to meaningful racial integration of all city schools. But the spirit and the strength shown over the past week suggest that meaningful change may come from a sorrow shared by the city...
...Union has chosen both to exploit that turbulence and to project its power into it. This is likely to be highly destabilizing for all of the neighbors of Afghanistan. The Soviets may hope to extract some benefits from it, but they should be increasingly aware that international stability and restraint are more in their own interest...
...China is a factor for stability hi Asia and contributes to great restraint by all parties. It would certainly be highly premature to speculate whether that reality can be translated into anything more systematic or more formal. Defense Secretary Harold Brown will have wide-ranging consultations during his visit to Peking this week, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is very much on the agenda...