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Similar policies of moral suasion have failed resoundingly in the past...
...earned respect from big and small powers for his quietly energetic diplomacy. He received a 14-to-0 endorsement on the second ballot in the Security Council, and was re-elected by acclamation in the General Assembly. How does Waldheim view his job? As one of moral suasion, he says. "Like the Pope, I have no divisions...
...productivity, and should have the power to force compulsory arbitration." PAUL SAMUELSON, M.I.T. economist. "I'm in favor of a much more activist incomes policy than President Nixon has been willing to take, but I stop short of mandatory price controls. I'm for jawboning, for moral suasion. To hold down prices, I would let in more imports, and I would use Government procurement policies...
...self-righteousness, matched by the banks' haughty self-justification. While neither the government nor the banks are likely to admit the fact publicly, no one with intimate knowledge of this matter doubts that a decisive factor was persistent pressure by Friends of Africans, especially church spokesmen. When moral suasion failed, concrete action-withdrawal of tens of millions of dollars by churches in deposits and investments from the banks-proved effective, a vindication of economic sanctions to implement ethical judgments...
...inveighing against sin and asking the top business and labor leaders not to sin, you have to define sin. That means some kind of White House specification of what is and what is not in the national interest in terms of price and wage decisions. Exhortation or purely moral suasion will not work. That is an open-mouth policy without any teeth...