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...inventive ripostes. For about two-thirds of its distance, as it places an ordinary kid in an extraordinary situation, WarGames flirts with an E.T.-like charm. One imagines young David heading toward a small, smart, deadly encounter with gum-snapping Dabney Coleman, who plays, with his usual admirable restraint, a true believer in the Pentagon's, and WOPR's, infallibility...
...fact, hopes that the Soviet Union, whose main aim seems to be to rebuild its weak diplomatic position in the Middle East, will act as a restraint on Syria. The Soviets, according to U.S. thinking, would have little to gain from an outbreak of fighting between Syria and Israel. They could again be embarrassed militarily, as they were last year when the Israelis shot down about 100 of Syria's Soviet-made jet fighters...
...first it seemed that restraint might prevail. But when 200 students tried to occupy the library at the University of Chile, in the eastern part of Santiago, 50 police attacked with tear gas, brutally clubbing the protesters for nearly two hours. Then truncheon-wielding guards charged into an overflow crowd of dissident lawyers and students gathered to support the workers; about 15 were injured...
...government's inevitable call for restraint was surprisingly well received at last week's gathering in the capital city of Canberra. The unions seemed willing to settle, for the time being at least, for modest wage increases pegged to the consumer price index. Business leaders struck an equally harmonious chord. Many, in fact, went so far as to advocate a freeze on senior management salaries, shareholders' dividends and medical fees...
...even that far. They stressed what the treaty did not accomplish: it failed to stop, much less reverse, the arms race; it failed to close the "window of vulnerability" by eliminating the hypothetical possibility of a first strike against the U.S. More generally, the treaty entailed no accompanying restraint on Soviet adventurism and mischief making around the world...