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...article in Literary Gazette last week suggested that the writer and other dissidents must be held responsible for any setbacks in the course of detente. There was, however, little cause for Kremlin concern. Diplomats in most major European capitals generally agreed that the Soviets acted with a degree of restraint in exiling Solzhenitsyn rather than liquidating him, as would have happened under Stalin. One measure of detente, argued a high-ranking State Department official, is "that Solzhenitsyn is now speaking to the Western press and is not in Siberia or in prison...
...together one of the best films about a labor movement, carefully drawing his characters; building up suspense as the workers begin to organize; moving, with precise editing, to a gloomy yet somehow very inspiring ending. Set in Turin in the late 19th century, this film has a photographic restraint which keeps it from preaching. Monicelli never overdoes a scene. He presents striking scenery, for example, in a mature way: not to impress the viewer in David Lean style, but to pace the film so as to create an impression as strongly intellectual as it is visual. In A Drama...
Despite the current economic slowdown, Nixon is offering what he calls "a budget which will continue a posture of modest restraint." The slowdown is cutting into personal incomes and profits and thus into the tax take. Revenues will be lower than if the economy were closer to full employment, and the budget is dropping deeper into the red. The deficit is expected to swell from $4.7 billion this fiscal year to $9.4 billion next year. Many economists outside the Government predict larger deficits, as high as $20 billion. For all of Richard Nixon's conservative fiscal views, his budgets...
...ever certain whether the capital controls sufficiently limited the outflow of money to be worth the effort of administering them. Treasury Secretary George Shultz strongly disliked them. Said Shultz: "Whatever net restraint really existed, the cost was high." Last week's removal immediately led other nations to take their own steps toward freedom. The governments of Canada, West Germany and Belgium said that they would lift their capital controls in response to the U.S. move, and The Netherlands is expected to follow suit...
Describing the style of questioning for a committee investigator, Dash said that it called for a "studied restraint." "In a jury trial one goes for the jugular vein," he said, "in a committee room, it is important not only to be objective but to appear objective as well...