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Exacerbating restraint. A Pushmi-Pullyu, as in expressing the hope that the Soviets would do nothing "to exacerbate the kind of mutual restraint that both sides should pursue...
...should be willing to face about itself, is no. Had the hostages not been Government employees, had they not been flown out by the Government, sequestered by the Government first in Wiesbaden then at West Point, with the press held at bay by military police, no feeling of ethical restraint or human sympathy would have kept the cameras from zooming in on those first awkward, tense moments of families reunited. At times journalism is a ghoulish trade. A good many voyeurs in the audience, of course, would have been delighted to invade such a private moment, which...
...wealth "at a time when most people can't hack it." Marcia Carter, a Republican civic leader from Houston, agreed. Said she: "The thing that offended me most was the great extravagance at a time when we're supposed to be cutting the budget and showing restraint on all unnecessary frills." Robert Michel, the new Republican minority leader in the House, complained: "At these prices, only those of a certain economic stratum can attend...
...agree that the Americans have given in to blackmail." The West German response has been similar. What dismayed Europeans most about the hostage crisis was the same thing that most dismayed and shocked the American public-the terrible failure of the helicopter rescue mission. On the whole, however, U.S. restraint has been regarded as admirable by its allies and, in purely humane terms, the wisdom of that restraint resides in the fact that, despite the ordeal, the 52 hostages are indeed home free...
...example, include $13.1 billion from a proposed extra 10?-per-gal. tax on gasoline. Congress has often made it clear that it will not increase the tax on gas. Carter also proclaims that the annual pay raise for federal employees in October will be held to 5.5%. Such restraint seems unlikely; last year Carter initially suggested a 7.8% civil service pay hike, only to increase it later to 9.1%. After looking over Carter's numbers, David Stockman, Reagan's budget chief, charged that "the relatively low deficit is entirely cosmetic and artificial...