Word: restriction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposed plans to give the Docket Committee the power to restrict debate. "I propose giving the benefit of the doubt to our present freedom instead of constraint," Glauber said. He then suggested three main changes in the original Docket Committee plan...
...Ball can believe that U.S. national interest in Berlin is "fundamental" and in Viet Nam only "marginal" [Nov. 7]. As an isolated and militarily indefensible outpost, West Berlin is of no strategic value; it is indeed a liability, because fears of Soviet retaliatory pressures against the hostage city restrict American freedom of action elsewhere. The decisive argument against abandoning Berlin is simply that to surrender a U.S.-protected non-Communist population to Communist rule would be a morally intolerable betrayal, and that for Washington to let itself be coerced into committing such a betrayal would have devastating consequences on anti...
...attacker. As a weapon of defense, it adds nothing to the complexity of the target system which the offender has to penetrate. If perfected by more testing, the MIRVs and the SS-9 could make an arms freeze technically impossible. Unlike ABMs, they are difficult to detect and restrict. The size and shape of MIRVed missiles would be indistinguishable from the size and shape of single warhead missiles...
...bill discourages gifts to foundations of appreciated property, such as stocks. Another hinders attempts by the owners of closely held corporations from creating foundations based on ownership of their shares. These measures would eliminate some of the abuses permitted under existing laws, but they would also seriously restrict the useful and valuable activities of foundations, making educational and scientific institutions increasingly dependent on Government financing...
Committee Chairman Pepper plans to press for legislation to limit exports and imports, to restrict sales of amphetamine ingredients, and to regulate the sale of drugmaking machinery. The committee will ask for limitation of drug production, based on medical need, and will suggest a ban on a variety of amphetamines, the dangers of which outweigh their legitimate uses. If Pepper succeeds, there will perhaps be no further shipments like the one by a U.S. company to a nonexistent street number that turned out to be the eleventh hole of a Mexican golf course. There Mexican smugglers picked up the goods...