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Something Drastic. Yet the need for restraint remained tempered by a complex series of dilemmas. Even as U.S. warships steamed in the eastern Mediterranean to evacuate Americans from Lebanon if necessary, U.S. officials admitted that the U.S. role in the crisis had been eclipsed by the latest Arab initiatives. For the Lebanese, a political solution remained in the distance. Even with the latest attempt to establish a ceasefire, the basic issues between Lebanon's Moslems and Christians, so far from being resolved, have been intensified by the terrible bloodshed of recent weeks...
...profile in Luanda; they are seldom seen in great numbers except on weekends, when they congregate on a beach reserved for them to play their guitars, sing songs, play soccer or volleyball. Says one Portuguese resident of the capital: "The Cubans have been a force for moderation and restraint since independence. I hate to think what might have happened without them. I hope they stay a long time...
...Wage Restraint. The 11 million members of the T.U.C.'s constituent unions will vote next week to ratify or reject that agreement and, as Healey bluntly put it, more severe welfare cuts than he has already planned could "bust the relationship between the unions and the government." With minimal fanfare, in order to avoid upsetting the unions, the government has already put a tighter rein on municipal welfare spending, cut a scheduled pension raise by one-third, and indefinitely postponed a new child-benefit scheme. But Healey turned aside demands from the opposition Conservatives for more sweeping cutbacks with...
...healthy form of editorial restraint seems to be emerging. This is to report scandal that a public figure such as Congressman Hays can be held responsible for, but not to record the misbehavior of those, like sons or daughters caught in drug arrests, whose only claim to special notice is their relationship to someone in the news. That distinction is not yet universal, but it should...
Proposed as an anticancer drug by San Francisco Biochemist Ernst Krebs Jr. in 1952, Laetrile* has attracted an avid, almost evangelical band of followers. Among them are members of the right-wing John Birch Society who regard the Food and Drug Administration's ban on Laetrile as a restraint on individual freedom. Krebs argued that Laetrile kills only cancerous cells-not normal tissue-because they do not contain an enzyme that detoxifies the poison cyanide released from Laetrile's central ingredient, a chemical called amygdalin. Yet in repeated tests, Laetrile has shown no effect on tumors. Says...