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...just by the philosophical wisdom of the American argument, but by the strength of the American bargaining position. The U.S. had started to build an ABM of its own, despite stiff political opposition, so the Soviets had to ponder the implication of unregulated competition as an alternative to negotiated restraint. They also realized the apparent impossibility of an effective ABM. The 1972 SALT I treaty limiting ABMs is the only nuclear arms control agreement still legally in force between the superpowers. As amended in 1974, it restricts each side to one ABM installation. The U.S. has already retired...
...placed Lebanese babies. It curtailed the assault of houses of worship where the PLO were strategically ensconced. And it prolonged a war of atrophy in Beirut where citizens held captive were spared the swiftness of full-scale bombardment Perhaps not praise but respect for Israel's laudatory restraint...
...subjects without seeming irrelevant. He knows how to provoke readers enough that they keep reading, but not so much that they angrily turn the page. He is a master of both puckish wit and ear-splitting indignation, yet on matters of moral consequence he can write with majestically measured restraint. He boasts of having taken the scalps of Cabinet members, congressional leaders and diplomats, yet he is quicker to offer a correction, or to let a target answer back, than almost any other eminent columnist...
...come the French, the Swedes, the Poles, the Teutonic knights and the Nazis. From the east have come the Mongols and the Tartars. Given what sometimes seems to be the almost continual stream of marauders passing through or threatening the country, the Russians have come to accept some extraordinary restraint on their individual lives, usually in the name of national defense...
...must applaud the restraint of Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone [Jan. 24] in not saying, "If Americans made cars, TVs and calculators more attractive to the consumer than ours, the U.S. would not have a trade problem...