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...wake of last week's raid, Washington fired off stiff notes to Cairo and Jerusalem, urging more restraint along the canal. But some U.S. officials were plainly more annoyed with Israel for having launched the attack than with Egypt for having goaded its enemies. A State Department official grumbled, "When is Israel going to learn that it can not shoot its way to peace?" Other officials were irritated by the Israelis' conviction that the only way to persuade the Arabs to end their border violations was to hit them hard and often. The U.S. maintains that escalation by one side...
...violence. Fewer than 150 youngsters were arrested-most of them on charges of indecent exposure or peddling dope. Around Dallas, this pacific result enraged angry citizens, who wanted the cops to bust the kids. Lewisville Chief of Police Ralph Adams, who had handled the situation with caution and restraint, resigned. "The trouble was coming from our own hometown gawkers," he said. "If I'd sent narcotics agents in with 50,000 youngsters, we would have...
Government Example. Giscard suavely sought to appease industry by promising that the government would set an example of restraint. The 1969 deficit will be cut from $1.26 billion to $722 million, he vowed. Planned price increases by government-run gas and electricity utilities will be canceled. Military conscripts will be released a month early to swell the ranks of labor. And for the long term, the Finance Minister relayed a pledge from Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas: so long as he is in office, government spending will rise no faster than the gross national product...
...learning to live less nervously with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Last spring President Nixon described the Middle East as a "powder keg," needing only the tiniest spark to explode. Last week, however, Washington viewed the current situation coolly, and the State Department said merely that it was counseling "restraint" to both sides. Moscow made no comment publicly, but U.S. diplomats believe that the Soviets have no interest in escalating hostilities and risking a fresh beating for their Arab clients at the hands of the Israelis (see box following page). The Russians, accordingly, are warning Nasser & Co. to be cautious...
...collar ghet tos where they pay a stiffer price - in poor schools, en croaching throughways and war casualties - than do affluent whites across the city lines. Most of them still believe in God, country, the work ethic and a sexual standard that calls for at least a decent public restraint. In a day of diz zying moral change, they see themselves as the last defenders of moral authority. That is why they still admire the military and regard the police as heroes. The New York Times's Tom Wicker had a revelation at the Chicago convention: "These were...