Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Ho should be left alone to reunify Viet Nam, since he would doubtless emerge as the Tito of Southeast Asia and hence become a man who could be dealt with reasonably by the West. This is wishful thinking. Ho does not have the 1,100 miles of buffer zone separating him from Red China that Tito had from Russia; nor has Peking's attitude toward North Viet Nam relaxed as Moscow's did toward Yugoslavia before the 1948 break. And when Tito broke clear, he had a unified nation under him, plus all of Western Europe...
...high-level committee of Pentagon, State Department and CIA men that met every morning for weeks in his Situation Room to ride herd on day-by-day developments in Santo Domingo. It was Bundy who came up with the idea of establishing a U.S. "line of communication" as a buffer between rebel and junta forces in the city...
Aware that the White House meeting was about to take place, and probably anticipating Taylor's recommendations, the North Vietnamese and the Chinese Communists had already started bawling charges that U.S. planes were bombing Communist installations in the so-called neutralist buffer zone between North and South Viet Nam. And hardly was the White House meeting over than the Soviet Union started squawling about how the U.S. was "playing with fire" in even considering a step up in the Vietnamese war effort...
...much even for the sizable United Party, which basically backs apartheid but differs with the government on how it should be carried out. United Party Leader Sir de Villiers Graaff warned that the bill would alienate middle-class Africans living in the cities, who form an important buffer against the angry black underground. Verwoerd's Nationalists were unimpressed. Revolution, they figure, is unlikely in a country that spends 27% of its budget on security...
Died. Jigme P. Dorji, 45, Premier since 1955 of Bhutan, mote-size (18,000 sq. mi.) Indian buffer state in the Himalayas, who with his brother-in-law, King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, brought Bhutan boldly into the 20th century by abolishing slavery and polyandry, joining the Colombo Plan, building hospitals and the first road to the outside world; by an unknown assassin's bullet, as he sat in a resthouse at the Indian border post of Phunchholing...