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...moved into battle. Late in the week, one of Israel's crack units, the Golani Brigade, began maneuvers in the occupied Golan Heights of Syria. A military spokesman said that the maneuvers had been planned for some time. But in Washington, which had been counseling Israel to show restraint, some Administration officials feared that Israel's militant presence near the border might heighten tensions and increase the danger of a bigger Middle East explosion...
...more heartening developments in this year of expiring labor contracts has been the restraint shown by big unions in their demands for pay boosts. A case in point was the settlement between the United Rubber Workers and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., which granted increases totaling 810 an hour over the next three years-a figure within the Administration's 5.5% Phase III guideline. But last week the fragile peace came to an end as 10,300 U.R.W. members struck B.F. Goodrich, halting work at plants in six states and shattering a long period of labor tranquillity in major...
...Burger does not hew to the scholarly tradition of true "judicial restraint." Indeed, says Simon, the President did not want more judicial restraint, as he frequently claimed. He wanted politically conservative Justices who would be as assertive in rolling back new rights as the Warren majority had been in establishing them. Simon contends that in at least three out of four of his choices, Nixon got what he was looking for. William Rehnquist, for instance, "is an activist every bit as tenacious as William Douglas."And Harry Blackmun, like the Chief Justice with whom he almost always votes, also seems...
Thus, despite Conant's deliberate restraint, the program he did create has become an institution, albeit a loosely structured and highly individualistic...
...stately, sunlit tonal landscapes of Sir Edward Elgar withered before the 20th century's neoclassic revolt. Elgar died nearly forgotten in 1934. In this stylish reading of the E-flat symphony Daniel Barenboim takes a fresh look at the elegant Edwardian, holding a course of gentle restraint against an exuberance of leaping octaves and rolling timpani. Barenboim reclaims the Elgar grandeur without losing any of the buoyancy that captivated 19th century audiences...