Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With both Viet Nams under Communist control, Laos and Cambodia would probably be doomed to becoming satellites of the Vietnamese. Other nations of the region would have to make some accommodations with the powerful Vietnamese, like adopting a more neutral foreign policy. There seems little evidence, however, to substantiate fears that Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines would fall to the Communists like dominoes. In Thailand, the small insurgency movement might gain at least moral support from new Communist governments in the region; but Bangkok would probably try to prevent that by moving quickly to improve its relations with Peking...
Bagwell--who had been inducted into office only hours before his departure from the meeting--one of the three students appointed to aid Epps in his investigation, and is regarded as a neutral among the council's warring factions...
...raped round the world, and Enderby is blamed for it. Settled into a dingy, rented lair near the university on the Upper West Side, Enderby is soon a man much bemused and beleaguered by moralists and behaviorists. In vain he declares that art-even execrable art-is neutral. Loathing the movie more than anyone, he sees it not as a cause but as a symptom of sin. "You ignore art as so much unnecessary garbage," he howls at his tormentors, "or you blame it for your own crimes." Even members of Enderby's creative writing class...
...diary. "If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake the complete management of the finances of Turkey. We would form there a part of a wall of defense of Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism. We would as a neutral state, remain in contact with all of Europe which would have to guarantee our existence...
...which poverty and illiteracy would be overcome. Toward that end, he ordered his government to make primary education free to every child (at present only 13% of his 12 million subjects are literate). He emphasized that Nepal would continue to pursue a nonaligned foreign policy and remain scrupulously neutral in matters affecting its giant neighbors, India and China. By tradition the Nepalese have feared domination by India, and were greatly concerned when New Delhi absorbed their Himalayan neighbor, Sikkim, last year...