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There is still fight aplenty in the President, and his opponents know that. On some issues Reagan has not yet taken the field. When he gets back from his European trip in May, he will stump the nation for tax reform and more Government restraint. How effective he will be is an open question now. Everything he says and does will get even more scrutiny and less tolerance than in the past, as demonstrated by the German cemetery incident...
...vicinity of the President's office. Two Tamil youths were arrested and identified as members of the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students, one of five separatist groups participating in the Thimbu conference. A spokesman for Gandhi denounced the assassination attempt and urged both sides "to exercise maximum restraint at this delicate stage...
...Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from its complex script (by the novelist Li Qiang), its imperfect characters and its emotional restraint in depicting the harshness of daily life in China...
...Bremer's Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) looks likely to create a relatively weak central government in Baghdad, that was its intent - restraining any one ethnic or religious group from dominating others on the basis of a simple majority. But the price of that restraint has been to give the Kurdish minority the means to blackmail the majority, which in turn sets the scene for an acrimonious aftermath. The Kurds want to resolve such contentious issues as Kirkuk while their power is at its peak; the Shiites insist it should be done on the basis of a consensus achieved...
...nation seemed more entertained than disturbed at the exposure of an industry long assumed to harbor sleazy elements. What did cause genuine uproar, however, was India TV itself. The private lives of politicians and celebrities have traditionally been off-limits for mainstream newspapers and television. In that climate of restraint, India TV's methods were deemed as outrageous as its subject matter. "It's awful journalism," glowers the Hindu newspaper's editor in chief, N. Ram. His Indian Express counterpart, Shekhar Gupta, agrees. "You just can't do this," says Ram. "In India, people's private lives are nobody else...