Word: restraint
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...Nixon's tour was a good beginning, characterized by realism and restraint on all sides. Once again Richard Nixon proved that he travels well and can be a gifted President in the intricate realms of foreign policy. But that is only part of any President's duties, and his failures in the large area that has come under the Watergate rubric will be waiting to be reckoned with on his return...
...Doubt. "The people are pushing too hard and abusing their new freedom," complains one government official. "There will have to be some restraint imposed so that the rights of all are respected." The warnings seemed to have an impact, and at week's end both the transit and bakery workers went back to their jobs. "Those who have waited 48 years for their liberation must not allow all to be lost in 48 days," said one union leader...
...Restraint in Portugal is dependent on a resolution of the fighting in Africa. Already the junta has gone beyond what Spinola last month envisioned for the three territories: a loose federation with Lisbon. Full independence is now regarded as inevitable. Talks have already begun in London with the representatives of insurgents in Guinea, smallest of the territories and the one that Portugal finds it easiest to set free...
John Dunlop, head of the COLC, objected-but rather mildly. Two weeks ago, he called a 2.9% price increase by Chrysler, which had not signed the price-restraint agreement, "a display of consummate gall." He confined himself to calling the Ford increase "unwarranted" and conceded that Ford's data "indicate that costs per unit have risen above those projected." Since general wage-price controls have expired, Dunlop cannot order a rollback; to get the Ford increase canceled or reduced he would have to go to court, and it is doubtful that the White House would permit the Justice Department...
Whatever happens, the auto case points up the toothlessness of the price-restraint agreements that Dunlop negotiated with 16 other industries while the Administration was dismantling controls bit by bit over the past nine months. The industries include some of the most vital in the economy: retail trade, fertilizer, coal, aluminum and petrochemicals. Under present law, the COLC, second party in all the agreements, will die on June 30, and the Senate last week voted down a proposal to continue it as a watchdog agency. Result: there will be no unit left even to monitor the agreements...