Word: counterweights
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...ensure neutral Cambodia's survival, and he expects a unified, and probably Communist government in Viet Nam in the not too distant future. Traditionally, a strong Viet Nam has always meant trouble for Cambodia, and the Prince is now swinging toward the U.S. in order to preserve a counterweight to what he sees as the coming threat from the East. Thus the kindnesses toward the eleven G.I.s, whom Sihanouk seems increasingly eager to hand over. "Their stay is too expensive," he joked last week. "I have to pay for many good lunches for them...
...consent to whatever initial agenda the other side might propose. The President also invited Thant to Washington this week to "thank him very much for another try." In fact, the Administration was fiercely yet helplessly exasperated by Hanoi's skillful use of inconclusive peace hints as a psychological counterweight to its bloody assaults on South Viet Nam. Furthermore, Communist propagandists in South Viet Nam assiduously spread the word that the U.S. was conniving with the North to sell out the Saigon regime and establish a coalition government that would include the Viet Cong...
...styles than any other, there is no reason for viewing the generation gap as insurmountable; no reason why parents and children cannot learn how to fight for rather than against one another. The fact that America is full of disciple families-despite seemingly enormous odds against them-is a counterweight to the relatively few pathological cases that get all the publicity. If the Beatle girl leaves home after living alone for so many years, her parents stand condemned for a failure that Americans can and must avoid...
Fulbright charged that while the universities could "have formed an effective counterweight" to the defense establishment, they have not. Instead the leading ones "have instead joined the monolith, adding greatly to its power and influence...
...them were segregationists only for economic reasons. "What they would most like," argues Ekman, "is a law that would force them to open up." That way, of course, no landlord would be fearful of losing white renters to rival apartment owners. Without such a law, Ekman can only counterweight landlords' misgivings about accommodating Negroes with the certainty that they will lose all their military business by refusing...