Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restraint was admirably diplomatic, considering the provocation. The day before, U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Lawrence Eagleburger had denounced Western Europe for its selfish neglect of the Atlantic Alliance. As he told a foreign policy conference in Washington, "We have seen a more and more inner-directed Western Europe, more and more concerned with its own problems, more and more concerned with its economic difficulties, less and less in time with the U.S. It is ever more difficult to get Western Europe to look outside its own borders." He described Western Europe's attitude as "almost a contemplation...
Errol T. Louis, in his recent editorial piece "The Darker Side," has certainly moderated his anti-American vituperation from the levels reached in some of the articles of his which appeared last year in What Is To Be Done? This time, in an admirable display of self-restraint, he limits himself to the charge that Blacks in this country and elsewhere are "as a group, getting beat in the head by various American institutions, chief among them the United States government." Louis is, of course, being figurative; we Blacks have not been in serious danger of random head-beating...
Embarrassing prior restraint...
...unambiguous. As an unbroken line, of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1931 makes clear, the constitutional ban on prior restraint of publication is all but absolute. An exception might be made if there was a grave and immediate threat to the national security, but no such case has ever arisen...
...prosecutors. What was even more surprising was that a panel of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Oklahoma had granted a temporary injunction. The appeals court rescinded its order last Tuesday, but constitutional experts were still shocked that the court had agreed, however briefly, to the prior restraint. "For 21 days there was a censorship order outstanding against an absolutely trivial publication," said First Amendment Attorney James Goodale indignantly...