Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell under Blaine's attack for thinking that the university, instead of being "essentially neutral . . . should make itself a political force . . . by counteracting certain forces which they feel as evil-undermining the Armed Forces, for example, by eliminating ROTC or . . . denying the government access to university facilities...
...strange logic-though often used-which holds that university involvement with ROTC and government research is in keeping with a neutral role. but that refusal to be linked with these things is a highly political act aimed at "undermining the Armed Forces...
Originally, the inquest was to have begun Sept. 3 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard. But Kennedy's lawyers argued that the inquest would not really be a neutral inquiry. They said that it would be an adversary proceeding in which Kennedy-under the guidelines set by District Court Judge James Boyle -would be denied crucial rights. Boyle had wanted to open the inquest to press coverage and to deny Kennedy's attorneys the right to cross-examine witnesses called by District Attorney Edmund Dinis. Therefore, Kennedy petitioned a higher court to order the inquest to be held...
RESEARCH on the techniques of counter-insurgency warfare could be viewed as neutral so long as there were a general consensus on the framework of American foreign policy. Once a radical perspective became established and challenged this consensus, however, the value assumptions and political effects of the counter-insurgency research became clearer...
...significant feature of "developing" societies might be interested in finding what social and cultural factors lead peasants to join a social revolution. Given the commonly accepted American notion of political development, however. studies like Project Cambridge- which seeks to find what factors make a peasant patriotic- appear to be neutral or objective...