Word: restraint
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...some it is fairly easy to put blame on India for the deterioration of the situation in the subcontinent. However, these observers seem to overlook the fact that India has acted with restraint and patience for the last nine months, struggling hard to feed, shelter and cure the 10 million extra people in the already overcrowded country while the world "watched...
There is an unwritten rule of diplomatic courtesy and prudence that officials of one government should never gossip in public about the problems of another. As the White House was reminded last week, there is sound reason for such restraint. During a press breakfast in Washington, White House Director of Communications Herbert Klein commented that he and Presidential Counsellor Robert Finch both came away from their recent swing through six Latin American countries with the "feeling" that Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens' government in Chile "won't last long...
...joined the founders of the N. A. A.C.P. Joel became the group's second president while Arthur headed its national legal committee. Arthur marched in the streets to protest lynchings, and smashed glasses in the Manhattan saloons that discouraged integrated patronage. Before the bench, however, he epitomized judicial restraint and won eleven landmark legal victories before assuming the N.A.A.C.P. presidency upon Joel's death. Eventually he became the target of militants who sought to purge the organization of its white leadership, resigned in 1966 and became honorary president...
...made a mildly hopeful remark that "if the nation demands his [Mujib's] release, I will do it." Simultaneously, four appeals for Mujib's release, all of suspiciously obscure origin, appeared in the government-supervised press in West Pakistan. On her return to New Delhi. Mrs. Gandhi appealed for restraint and patience...
...Restraint. During the year since Herbert filed the complaint, the Army has maintained an official silence on the whole case, a correct procedure while the charges against Barnes and Franklin were being investigated. Herbert was under no such restraint. He pressed his case against the Army's handling of the war-crimes allegations, appearing on network television and granting interviews to reporters. The Army retaliated in petty ways. A dispute developed over Army permission procedure for him to make a second appearance on the Dick Cavett Show. The next morning Herbert was upbraided by a superior for saluting improperly...