Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your face, but stir up insurrection behind your back." To the nervous titters of such practitioners of insurrection as Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, he took a cut at that African holy of holies, nonalignment. "We all say we are neutral, but we all favor anybody who helps us," Tsiranana said. "If you ask me the truth, I'll say mais oui, I am allied." Then he hit home with a telling blow: "We all regret Patrice Lumumba's death, but who amongst us has not executed opponents? Have...
Kayode Eso, head of the Legal Division of the Ministry of Justice in western Nigeria, predicted that the "Goldwater incident" would alienate many "neutral" Nigerians from the West...
Erfan Ahmed of Burmeh-Shell Oil Company in Pakistan discounted any particular Islamic approach to economics, observing that economic development was "theologically neutral." He said Pakistan, an extremely poor country, is beseiged by the same problems and is aimng at the same goals as other undeveloped countries. Islam may give strength to the cause of educating the illiterate and of insuring the population against poverty, but it is not going to ease the uphill struggle, he said...
...about." Ike was irritated weeks ago by a New York Herald Tribune column by Roscoe Drummond, who interpreted a Trib-solicited Eisenhower statement as meaning that the former President was hard set against Goldwater's nomination. More recently Ike seethed at press criticism over his insistence on staying neutral in the G.O.P. presidential race...
Khrushchev's gibes at Scandinavian capitalism particularly galled the Swedes, who have remained neutral in the cold war and are doubly furious at having to spend $57 million to revise their defense planning as a result of Colonel Stig Wennerstrom's espionage for Moscow (TIME, May 8). Sweden is intensely proud of the humane, egalitarian society it calls "industrial democracy"-and with reason. From poverty so desperate that hundreds of thousands of its people fled to the U.S. in the 19th century, hardworking, ingenious Swedes have not only turned their predominantly capitalist economy into the world...