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...choice but to make an admission. But his statement seemed to set no or few limits on clandestine intervention in another country. A somewhat sharper but still highly flexible limit was set afterward by Kissinger. He told TIME: "A democracy can engage in clandestine operations only with restraint, and only in circumstances in which it can say to itself in good conscience that this is the only way to achieve vital objectives...
...Pigs disaster in 1961 and the revelation in 1967 that the agency for years had partly funded and manipulated the National Student Association and dozens of business, labor, religious and cultural groups. Both flaps overshadowed the positive services that the CIA had rendered before; there were demands for greater restraint by the CIA and closer control by the Executive Branch, but no real changes came...
Many skeptics view Colby's greening of the CIA, his assurances of reform and restraint (see interview page 18) as deceptive. They think these steps are designed merely to enable "the firm" (as it is sometimes known) to carry on business as usual. But Colby clearly realizes that he faces a serious questioning of the agency...
Officially, the President pronounced himself "encouraged" by GM's mini-rollback. "I am confident," he said, "that this action will be but one of many examples of restraint by management and labor." Unofficially, Ford's economic advisers breathed a sigh of relief. In their view, the Chief Executive had taken an uncalculated, ill-informed risk that unnecessarily put his prestige on the line when the nation's economic woes could least afford a blow to the new Administration's credibility. It is clear that GM recanted mainly to get the new President off the hook...
Sixth in a Year. Stein and Rush were not happy; the increase would be the sixth for the company since September 1973, and the third since April, when price controls were lifted. But they confined themselves to general talk about the need for price restraint; "I neither approved nor disapproved" of GM's specific plans, says Rush. If Rush had voiced any explicit criticism, says a GM source, then some 13,000 letters that went out later that day announcing the increase to GM dealers might not have been mailed. "The board," he says, "would have had a decision...