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...examined it. The agency based its position on the contract restricting present or past employees from revealing anything about agency operations without first getting its consent. Marchetti phoned the American Civil Liberties Union, which went to trial on his behalf. It argued that the CIA was exercising prior restraint-preventing publication-and thereby violating the First Amendment. But the U.S. District Court Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr. ruled that the First Amendment did not apply in the case of contractual obligations. Marchetti lost on appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case...
...After dawdling for weeks, the Administration made an eleventh-hour stab at saving COLC, but the move was too weak and came much too late. In the past six months or so, COLC has got many firms and industries, including autos, rubber and aluminum, to sign agreements to exercise restraint in pricing in exchange for being freed from formal control. If COLC vanishes, those agreements will no longer be legally binding, and the companies can lift prices at will...
Moreover, he did not overreact when Israeli troops violated the Oct. 22 cease-fire and surrounded the city of Port Suez. Sadat's restraint allowed Kissinger to make a convincing case to the Israelis that Egypt really wanted an agreement...
...strictest theological orthodoxy. It is even more bizarre in light of the contrast between the Christianity of Memorial Church (as aided by the Choir) and the Catholicism of Claudio Monteverdi's Venice in 1610. Monteverdi's exuberant celebration of the festival of the Virgin Mary outrageously flaunts Puritan restraint...
Both the protesters and the government have so far shown remarkable restraint and have avoided violence. Only when restless students from the capital's Haile Selassie University ventured outside the campus last week, to ignite an effigy of Endalkachew and demand "free speech" and "free press," were they attacked by baton-wielding police. Even then, few were injured or arrested. Ethiopian students studying in the Soviet Union also demonstrated. They occupied the Ethiopian embassy in Moscow for three hours and demanded that the Emperor abdicate...