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President Bok said he hoped to convince both parties to agree to a cease-fire until talks could be held in the neutral territory of Boylston Hall. But because none of the scientists could find the building, the fighting continued...
Ironically, it is not clear what might constitute neutrality in a Europe from which hostile blocs have vanished. For the first time in modern history every country in Western Europe is led by a democratic government and every state in Central Europe is on the road to it. As Social Democratic Party (SPD) planner Egon Bahr has asked, Who is there to be neutral against...
...willing to put myself at the mercy of West Germany so readily. As to our political future, I see a collection, a federation of autonomous Lander ((states)), each of which has its own historical identity -- related to one another like members of a family, and eventually neutral and unarmed. A centralized German state has always produced tendencies to suppress cultural diversity...
...Sandinistas became almost as abusive of their power as the Samoza regime. Self-described "neutral" human rights groups such as Witness for Peace, however, explained away or simply ignored abuses by the Sandinistas in their haste to catalog violations by the contras...
...four formula, and U.S. officials say the Soviets have been more flexible in private than in public. In London a high-ranking British diplomat said, "They are already talking to us as if it were a fait accompli." Said a senior Soviet diplomat: "We of course would prefer a neutral Germany under our influence. If that cannot be . . . we would prefer the Genscher plan to an unanchored neutral Germany on its own. It is better to have it tied to NATO in some form than loose...