Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each building in Quadrangle was to contain two fraternities, with an independent dormitory in the middle to act as a "buffer" between the fraternity lated fraternity houses finished, and the living units of the fraternities separated from an independent dormitory movable fire doors...
...Ungrateful Role. A year ago, he urged that Cambodia and Laos be recognized by both East and West as "neutral buffer states." Sihanouk blames the failure of this plan on the U.S. which, he says, at that time wished "to have Laos aligned as a 'pro-Western' neutrality," forced the issue, and got beaten. In Laos, sighs Sihanouk, "true neutrality is no longer possible. The victors and their allies now dictate their will...
Such neutrality might be hard to maintain. And a neutral Laos serving as a buffer state between Communism and the free world is not the tidiest of solutions. But then, few things in Laos are (see following story...
...Cambodia, Laos is the buffer that permits it a capricious neutralism. To firmly anti-Communist Thailand on the west, Laos is a geographic and ethnic neighbor and, if the Communists should take it over, a potential threat. To the U.S., Laos is primarily something to deny to the Communists, and just about as inconvenient a testing ground as can be found...
...north not as the Communist but as "the Annamese problem." About 1700, Laos split into three kingdoms, run by rival royalty, and it was still split two centuries later when the French, the last and by all odds the gentlest of the conquerors, arrived in 1893, seeking a buffer state against Siam and British Burma. The French looked around and proclaimed Laos living proof of Rousseau's theories about the noble savage...