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...first, the 17 million citizens of Taiwan responded with restraint to the stunning news of Washington's decision to sever diplomatic relations with Taipei and establish full ties with Peking. But with the approach of Jan. 1, the date that U.S. recognition of the People's Republic would be formally declared, reserve gave way to rage. Last week those feelings exploded in an outbreak of violence...
...York, Kurt Waldheim, secretary-general of the United Nations. yesterday called on "all concerned to exercise restraint and to refrain from moves that may further escalate the fighting...
GUIDELINES. The tendency of workers to demand big raises to catch up with past inflation and protect themselves against future price boosts, and of companies to pass along all cost increases and add a bit more, makes inflation accelerate. At first Carter contented himself with pleas for restraint and named Robert Strauss as special counsellor on inflation to do some mild jawboning. Strauss's six-month tenure will be remembered mostly for one rueful wisecrack: "The score is inflation 100, Strauss 0." In October, Carter replaced him with CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn and proclaimed formal guidelines with some teeth...
...that organizations have yanked $100 million worth of meetings from non-ERA states, and that its boycott has become one of the most effective pressures so far in the drive to get the amendment passed. Missouri and Nevada are suing NOW on grounds that the boycott is an illegal restraint of trade. Says Eugene Hosmer, president of the 134-city International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus: "Business itself is not affected?it just goes somewhere else?but for some cities, the effect has been substantial." Laments Warren Ericksen, executive director of the Miami Beach Convention Bureau...
...ingenuity of a press secretary, aggressive tactics by the police or self-restraint among press photographers that spared newspaper readers and television viewers the sight of the dead bodies of San Francisco Mayor George R. Moscone and City Councilman Harvey Milk? No: the coroner got there first and sealed up the rooms. Readers could be grateful nonetheless, so soon after being subjected in vivid detail to the carnage in Guyana...