Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were hints that much more serious consequences might ensue-ranging from the closing of NATO'S vital early-warning installations in Turkey, which monitor troop movements and missile activity in the Soviet Union, to a gradual shift in the country's foreign policy toward a more neutral stance. As Parliamentary Deputy Haluk Ulman put it, "If the U.S. decides that it can live without Turkey, then Turkey must learn to live without the Western world." Turkish-Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, moreover, warned that the aid cutoff might provoke the proclamation of an independent Turkish-Cypriot state...
...work that they have produced, or the quantity of imitators that they have spawned. Their work, especially Friedlander's, is typical of good modern photography in that it is understated, snatched out of a landscape and relishing real textures and complexities--not shots of mere abstract forms against neutral backgrounds, or of ideas that could be expressed in less than the proverbial thousand words...
...plan was being worked out to move pupils from South Boston High School, the Irish-Catholic center of the dispute, to a building on a more neutral site. A group of white parents agreed to try to organize black and white students, as well as parents, to discuss the conflict. The biracial council would be the first of its kind in South Boston since the troubles began...
...after the Beirut raid, a young man in a cinema in Tel Aviv tossed homemade hand grenades into the audience. Three people-including the terrorist-were killed and nearly 60 injured. In Beirut, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat declared: "We have retaliated for the Beirut attack." However, some neutral observers questioned whether the attack was retaliatory. They doubt that the P.L.O. could so quickly organize the operation. Credit for the attack was claimed by George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group opposed to Arafat's more moderate policies...
Beyond that, Washington was dismayed at the blatantly unfair rulings made from the chair by this year's Assembly President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's Foreign Minister. When the Assembly debated the Palestine question, Bouteflika, abandoning the principle that the presiding officer is neutral, obviously favored the Arab in his handling of the time allotted for debate...