Word: temperance
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...casting the United States military establishment as a laboratory of social change, we might simply turn the page. But there was more. While the editors made a strong and important case for a draft without exemptions for the rich and the connected, they concluded that a draft would "temper our conduct in the world." This was certainly not the message that former President Carter sought to convey when he ratified the Selective Service Act shortly after Russia invaded Afghanistan. The expressed purpose of registration was to demonstrate that we were over the "Vietnam Syndrome" and prepared to defend our national...
Odell said that the administation had to temper its conservative policies occasionally to deal with the real world, as it did by refusing Taiwan the F-5 fighter planes, but he said the administration's plans had not changed or become more moderate. Although Reagan did not give the Taiwanese what they wanted, he continued to oppose Peking and support Taiwan, Odell added...
...draft; that we would be sending dangerous signals to the rest of the world by imposing conscription at this time. We bitterly oppose the militaristic overtones of our nation's foreign policy, which is one reason we want a draft, anticipating, as we have said, that it will temper our conduct in the world. And whatever other signals it sends, a no-exemptions draft will make clear to the rest of the world that this is one country where the sons and daughters of the privileged class help with the nation's most basic chores...
Despite those sharp expressions of concern, the Reagan Administration was at pains last week to show that it was still trying to hold its temper. At a meeting of the Organization of American States on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Haig said that the U.S. "is prepared to join others in doing whatever is prudent and necessary to prevent any country in Central America from becoming the platform of terror and war." As Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann listened gravely, Haig added that "if Nicaragua addresses our concerns about interventionism and militarization . . . we do not close...
...mystery of the personal outbursts that have so clouded his better nature is unsolved. A television reporter tried to find out if Haig took drugs after his heart surgery, believing that they might have triggered his ill-temper. Haig's friends have practiced amateur psychology but come up empty. The answer may lie in the Secretary's fierce belief that he is engaged in a battle, of sorts, and that only audacity will preserve his authority, both around the White House and abroad. His is a high-risk venture. He could be fired tomorrow. But if he wins...