Word: accordant
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...conference of Asian nations called to discuss Cambodia by Indonesia. To avoid weakening the shaky regime, the U.S. decided to forgo the legality of wangling an invitation from Phnom-Penh to attack the Communist bases in Cambodia. The omission meant that Washington was openly violating the Geneva accord of 1954 (which it did not sign but has repeatedly claimed to respect), guaranteeing Cambodian neutrality. Still, there is no doubt that the U.S. obtained tacit consent. Cambodia's Foreign Minister, Yem Sambour, said it all when he registered the government's feeble objection. "In principle," he said with a broad smile...
...rightly understood, is a way of opening doors to the imagination. For student groups and others it has meant a very precious thing: "Among us, you are a free man. Become yourself." At the same time, "Do your own thing" can be twisted by the immature and undisciplined in accord with their own whims. Then it becomes a license, a kind of big or little game hunt. Activists ruin others because "their thing" demands intellectual or sexual coercion. In the name of doing a big public thing, they do shameful, personal things and leave the wreckage of other lives...
...East Germans want West Germany to grant them full diplomatic recognition so that their part of Germany may take its place as a full-fledged sovereign nation in the world community. Brandt is willing to grant de jure recognition to East Germany-but with two important reservations. In accord with his formula of two German "states" within one "nation," he maintains that the Federal Republic will never regard the German Democratic Republic as a foreign country. He also holds that Germans of both countries will always share a common citizenship. Moreover, before he will consider granting diplomatic recognition to East...
...functioning in Vientiane. Ostensibly an arm of the U.S. aid mission, its actual function was to oversee training of the Laotian army, and it had almost total control of all U.S. aid to Laos. The money, however, failed to shore up the Vientiane government. A new Geneva accord signed in 1962 called for the establishment of a tripartite government in Vientiane, with Prince Souvanna Phouma's neutralists holding the balance between General Phoumi Nosavan's right-wing forces and Souphanouvong's Pathet Lao. Foreign troops were expressly forbidden...
...accord was completely ignored. As the war in Viet Nam intensified, increasing numbers of North Vietnamese poured into Laos to defend the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Chinese road builders appeared all over the north. U.S. advisers flocked to Vientiane, and American planes filled the skies-bombers to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail and transports to ferry government troops around...