Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's plans for neutralization of Viet Nam and the whole region look attractive on the surface. He plausibly speaks of a political solution where a military one is impossibly difficult, of giving the countries involved another choice besides the often deadly one between Communism or the U.S. Appealing though the thought might be for the U.S. to get out of what, at best, can only be more years, if not decades, of fighting, the French plan breaks down because a neutral area so close to Red China and already so deeply infiltrated by Communists seems unthinkable...
...made his first appearance in the Dining Hall for lunch. Conversation teetered on neutral subjects--mathematical tricks and why the Leverett elevators only stop every second floor. At the end of the first meal, Sorensen was reminded that at Harvard one returns one's tray to the kitchen...
Next was Dr. Martin Towler, a University of Texas neurologist and psychiatrist who had spent hours examining Ruby for Judge Joe Brown in order to offer a neutral source of information to the court. Towler had made electroencephalographic examinations (brainwave readings) of Ruby, told the jury that his graphs showed "paroxysmal discharges" from parts of Ruby's brain-indicating that "the subject is suffering from a seizure disorder." But in crossexamination, District Attorney Wade asked Towler if he meant to imply to the jury that Ruby had been out of his mind when he shot Oswald. Replied Towler...
Sweden was also ready to send troops but demanded that at least one other neutral, non-NATO nation join the operation as well. Finland would fill the bill, but could not immediately because President Urho Kekkonen was out of the country. Brazil, torn by domestic unrest and a faltering economy, could not spare even a battalion. That left Austria and Ireland. But Austria, trapped by a Cabinet crisis, was without a government, and Ireland was willing to play follower, not leader...
...group of Western experts, pointing out that Rumania had carefully steered a neutral course in the SinoSoviet feud, argued that the trip was made on behalf of the Soviets in order to show the Red bloc that Moscow was more reasonable than Peking. As evidence, the experts pointed out that the Soviet Ambassador to Bucharest had seen the Rumanians off at the airport, and that the delegation had wired fraternal greetings to Khrushchev as their plane entered Soviet airspace...