Word: restraint
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Past experience has often shown that once the technical barriers to some course of action are removed, it becomes too difficult to exercise effective political restraint. It may thus be only a matter of time before some new development in the ABM systems of either nation or further increases in nuclear strength forces both sides to place permanently circling nuclear warheads into space. That situation is precisely what the outer space treaty attempted to outlaw...
Father of His Country? To charges that Ghana is becoming an African backwater, John Harlley, vice chairman of the Liberation Council, answers: "We want it that way. Leading a continent is expensive, and we haven't got the money." Ankrah last week appealed to his people for political restraint during "a year of intensive activity preparatory to the return to civilian rule." It may take that long for a planned National Constituent Assembly to approve a draft constitution, which now calls for a division of power among a president, prime minister and parliament. The council would then permit political...
...ended the rail crisis in 1964, and his masterful manipulation of Congress in the early days of his presidency helped him to clean up a log jam of domestic programs that had been forming since the days of the New Deal. He has also proved himself capable of remarkable restraint, particularly in the face of Charles de Gaulle's persistent provocations...
...must increase their reserves with the Fed by $550 million. Bankers agree that the move was probably right. But they protested the fact that small banks with less than $5,000,000 in demand deposits were excluded, and they argued that Government should also undertake some tightening through fiscal restraint...
...hearing for two college dropouts accused of possession of the drug with intent to sell. Last week, after consideration of the case for three months, Superior Court Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro upheld the laws. In a 31 -page opinion that even pot lovers would have to admire for restraint and thoughtfulness, Judge Tauro carefully explained his conclusions...