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...Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Kane: "I know my people, and I am saying what they are thinking. The people of Georgia have been through periods of great crisis. My generation has had to assimilate many changes. Our black and white citizens have decided there will be no more restraint on their search to work together. Our problems and our opportunities are completely mutual. We have a lot of problems still left concerning race, but we are no longer preoccupied with this problem to the exclusion of others. There is a new dynamic, a new freedom that exists throughout the South...
...worries about the lack of restraint in a divided and contentious nation. So much so, in fact, that he has chosen to use the prestige of his high office to speak out on the troubling issues that transcend politics. He derives much of his inspiration from American history, and quotes approvingly from Thomas Jefferson's manual of decorum, which urged restraint on the uninhibited behavior of colonial legislators...
...Chief Justice is a daily practitioner of the restraint he urges on others. There are robust arguments among the Justices of the Supreme Court and sharp disagreements that seem to defy reconciliation. But underlying the differences is an atmosphere of cordiality that is rooted in mutual respect. It enables Burger and William O. Douglas-poles apart philosophically-to remain close friends even though they are infrequent judicial allies. It is that kind of civility that Warren Burger counsels for the nation...
Attorney General John Mitchell claimed that his speech last week to the California Peace Officers' Association amounted to a plea for restraint by lawmen in their confrontations with political dissenters, and to be sure much of the speech was exactly that. But what Mitchell had to say in San Francisco contained a couple of unhappy postscripts to the mass arrests during Washington's Mayday protest. More than 12,000 people were rounded up, often indiscriminately, herded into makeshift compounds and held as long as 36 hours with neither arraignment nor the chance to raise bail. To clear...
...tactics of non-violence, predicated at least in part on the restraint of the government. were sensible. The government is, in spite of what we imagine it may become, or what we announce to be its underlying ideology, somewhat restrained at home. While no judges yet rule for the Vietnamese, they sometimes rule for demonstrators over the machinery of repression. Judge Green demanded that the government "show cause" as to why the mass arrests were necessary. And another judge ruled that those arrested without cause could not have their fingerprints and mug shots placed in FBI files...