Word: neutralism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter has got to deal realistically when it comes to pleasing two selfishly motivated countries. He knows he cannot please one without hurting the other. The simple solution is to stop selling planes and weapons to either side and play the part of a neutral mediator if he really wants peace...
...There has been a systematic repression of solar energy. It seems pretty funny to me that the government, if it is completely neutral--why wouldn't they pursue this far safer alternative of solar energy with the same intent that they pursue nuclear energy? Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet--nobody taxes the sun yet," Raitt says...
Surrounded by such ideologically diverse powers as the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan and Iran, Afghanistan has traditionally pursued a neutral foreign policy, and the new regime endorsed that posture. Although Daoud had bargained for Soviet arms aid when he was Prime Minister, he had lately shown a distinct admiration for antiCommunists, including the Shah of Iran, with whom he dickered for a big aid program, and Saudi Arabia's King Khlid, whom he visited in February. Daoud's successors could want to replace his Western-tilted "neutrality" with a Soviet-leaning version...
...black majority rule. Vance fully agreed with Carter. But when the President wanted to dispatch Mondale to jawbone South African Prime Minister John Vorster in what Carter called "the lion's den" in Pretoria, Vance objected. Mondale should be given the benefit of at least meeting Vorster on neutral ground, Vance argued, and the meeting was held in Vienna...
...time to go. In 1941 Steinberg left Italy for a neutral country, Portugal, and after some altercations with the authorities there, he managed to get on a boat to America, armed with a "slightly fake" passport that he had doctored with his own rubber stamp...