Word: neutralism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students faced with the option of participating in a morally reprehensible institution as a way of financing their education should not remain oblivious to the ideological implications of their actions. Enrollment in ROTC is not a value-neutral means of paying for one's college costs...
Furthermore, the formulation of basic concepts is confused, including Barnet and Mueller's concept of the state--they alternatively see it as the "executive committee of the ruling class," controlled by the corporations through interlocking directorates and political influence, and as a somewhat class-neutral group of economic managers who regulate the economy within the confines of the capitalist system. Since the growing independence of the global corporations from the nation-state is the central theme of the book, it is particularly disturbing to find that the authors lack a coherent idea of what exactly the state is doing when...
...score last week after Reykjavik handily won the third round-as it had the previous two -in the so-called Cod War, a 17-year-old dispute with London over the valuable fishing rights in the chilling Arctic waters off the Icelandic coast. At a hastily arranged meeting in "neutral" Oslo, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland and Icelandic Foreign Minister Einar Agústsson signed a six-month agreement that could end what had become an increasingly acrimonious disagreement between the two NATO allies (they broke off diplomatic relations last February) and was even threatening to impair the alliance itself...
...real foundation for Getty's wealth was laid in 1949, when he outbid rivals and won (for $9,500,000 and royalties of $1,000,000 a year for three years) the oil rights to Saudi Arabia's 50% interest in the Neutral Zone, a barren 2,500 sq. mile tract that the Saudis owned jointly with Kuwait. For three years the Getty leases produced no oil, but in the fourth Getty struck it rich. By 1955, his wells were producing more than 4,000,000 bbls. of oil a year. Today, they are the chief source...
...some time. That situation could be particularly dangerous for the U.S., with its enlarged commitments and interests in the area. So concluded TIME'S Middle East bureau chiefs-Wilton Wynn of Cairo, Karsten Prager of Beirut and Donald Neff of Jerusalem-after comparing notes and impressions on the neutral ground of Athens. Their collective estimate of the situation...