The end of the cold war has freed Korean diplomacy from its ideological straitjacket.

An ideological straitjacket has been imposed which restricts, rather than guides, responsible governance in a globalised era.

And personalities aside, negotiators on both sides find themselves in ideological straitjackets.

Some even drove their own automobiles to work and were befriended by the new class of local industrialists who had shed their ideological straitjackets and operated as capitalists within a communist society.

There is a deep irony in the fact that just when the Communists are beginning to admit the flaws in their rigid ideology, the U.S. has tried to move back into an ideological straitjacket.

The workers had to submit to that ideological straitjacket, according to which to struggle for the good of the company meant to struggle for one's own interests.

The end of Communist rule will relieve these nations of the ideological and bureaucratic straitjackets that have retarded their development.

If China can raise its standard of living and education, if it can squeeze out of its present ideological straitjacket, then - who knows what it may have in store for the world?

It is a policy strapped into an ideological straitjacket.

The ideological straitjacket had yet to be imposed, and most theaters did what they most wanted to do, even if there were productions that for unexplained reasons never got beyond the rehearsal stage.