Word: neutral
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...year period, utilize a neutral designee from outside the police department to act as a fact finder for the Chief of Police and other guard management in all discrimination claims, and apply the facts as found by that designee in the existing internal grievance and/or complaint procedures...
...Demjanjuk was wrongly convicted in Israel, the trial court's mistake was in relying too heavily on the testimony of five Treblinka survivors, ages 61 to 86. Their identifications, four decades after the events, were made in not entirely neutral circumstances. During the initial investigation, they picked Demjanjuk from a photo spread in which his picture was disproportionately large. They identified him in court after the Israeli media had thoroughly covered his extradition. "Of course the survivors knew who he was supposed to be," says Tom Segev, author of The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. "They'd seen...
...growing number of critics are suggesting that the U.N. has gone off course in hunting Aidid, damaging its credibility as a neutral peacemaker. Howe insists that the U.N. remains impartial. "We oppose no clan, subclan or party," he says. "We must, however, defend ourselves and the people of Somalia against terrorist attacks and take the necessary measures to prevent such attacks." Howe is supported by the Pakistanis and others, who agree that Aidid must be removed from the scene if national reconciliation is to be achieved. That determination is shared at the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Les Aspin says...
...soul and the other -- are in no way affected by the coming down of the Berlin Wall. Besides, in the very first paragraph of the new book, we see the Gulf War being followed in a posh Zurich hotel -- the very definition of a safe "neutral" zone -- and are reminded that espionage nature abhors a vacuum: if the cold war is over, a hot one must be cooked up in its place...
Their first ceremony, held at the Cambridge City Hall, was rather small, says Bloom, but the two will be married again July 11 in a larger ceremony--after which they will both drop their current last names. The couple will adopt a neutral name and become Kevin and Alicia Thomas...