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...tension and violence in America's inner cities. Increasing pride and rising expectations among blacks were chafing against the reality of living conditions in ghettos like Watts and Harlem. In 1967 there were riots in Detroit. In 1968 the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. marked an end to restraint, and the hell that broke loose that summer in Watts and the poor sections of other American cities made a lasting impression on the millions of Americans who watched the trashing on the six o'clock news. The tension released that summer gets much of the credit for causing...
...brain are too finely interconnected with other functions, like the human will, perhaps even creativity. In the fantastically complex circuitry of the brain, hard science may have reached the limit of its power to identify cause and effect. To go beyond the limit may be to court disaster. Restraint would seem to be in order, lest one day a surgeon will say in frustration that he had to destroy a human mind in order to save...
While Californians suspend nearly all normal politicking in their frenzy over the property tax battle, politicians seeking election elsewhere are watching nervously. Virtually to a man, and woman, they are preaching fiscal restraint this year. But as the candidates plunge into primary campaigns, their fates will be decided by the voters on the basis of a complex of intraparty feuds, personality clashes and local issues. Among the liveliest races...
Until now, the Carter Administration has reacted to the Soviet-Cuban challenge in Africa with considerable restraint. But the latest invasion of Zaïre and the resulting massacre at Kolwezi appear to have changed that. Late last week U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York City and delivered what was said to be his toughest private lecture to date on the Soviet role in Africa. During his three-day visit to Peking, Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, urged the Chinese to step up their economic assistance to Africa to provide...
...pricing policies. Especially on ad-filled Thursdays. "My life in journalism has persuaded me that the press too often tries to guard its freedom by shirking its responsibility, and that this leads to default on both," he writes. "What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint...