Word: restraints
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Argentina promised last week that it would slash its government deficit from 14% of national output to 9% as a way of curbing inflation. But Alfonsin may have trouble getting Argentine labor unions to accept wage restraint. The opposition Peronist party tightly controls many of the unions. Alfonsin has tried unsuccessfully to push a bill through Congress that would have made unions more democratic...
...Administration handled a potentially cataclysmic trouble spot, Poland. In the debate within the Administration over Central America, Haig advocated the toughest policies to counter Soviet interventionism. But on Poland, his position in the intramural debate was reversed: he was the principal advocate of American caution and restraint. Where Haig viewed Poland as part of the Soviet sphere, some of his chief rivals-Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, now the embattled Attorney General-designate; William Clark, who initially served Haig as Deputy Secretary of State but later squabbled with him as National Security Adviser; and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
...this happen and why? In January 1982, President Reagan had written to Menachem Begin, urging restraint in Israel's support for the Lebanese Christian Phalange in its bitter struggle against Syria. In his lawyerly fashion, Begin sought to redefine the conditions under which the U.S. would consider an Israeli attack justified. Pointedly, I repeated my formula: only in strictly proportional response to "an internationally recognized provocation." Begin agreed, then changed his mind, and in one of his exercises in creative nuance, told Reagan Israel would take no major action "unless attacked in clear provocation...
...Israelis should not misjudge American public opinion; it would not tolerate such an operation in current circumstances. Begin interrupted. "Don't use those words, Sam!" he pleaded. But after he had consulted the Cabinet, Begin said he and his colleagues had decided to accept my request for restraint. At this delicate juncture, Caspar Weinberger, on a tour of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan, was reported to have stated that the U.S. needed more than one I friend in the Middle East and that the Administration might provide F-16 fighters and mobile Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Jordan. The Israelis...
...Begin and said, in so many words, that I hoped there was no ambiguity on the extent of our concern about possible future Israeli military actions in Lebanon. The President and I wanted to make it very clear that we sincerely hoped that Israel would continue to exercise complete restraint and refrain from any action that would further damage the understanding underlying the cessation of hostilities. Israeli military actions, regardless of size, could have consequences none of us could foresee...