Word: neutralism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thoughtful supporter of the fellowship wonders whether it is too neutral on political questions. "Doug never raises issues," observes Wesley Michaelson, Hatfield's legislative assistant. "The latent assumption is that the solution to political problems is to get people converted and committed to each other. [But] overseas some of the fellowship people are the same generals who carry out martial law." Still, Michaelson concedes that Coe's personal, uncritical ministry has made him "the real chaplain of the House and Senate." It has also forged ties of concern. When an assailant shot Mississippi's Senator John Stennis...
Although some tried to keep their opening statements neutral, most revealed their position on impeachment right off, and at first there were few surprises. Wisconsin's Democrat Robert Kastenmeier contended that "President Nixon's conduct in office is a case history of the abuse of presidential power." New York Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman detected "a seamless web of misconduct so serious that it leaves me shaken." Texan Brooks claimed that the committee
...when Miró produced his ravishing color-field paintings of the 1960s, like Blue II, the space was not neutral: it was the sky, swelling with blue, a historical and literary blue that has woven through modern French culture ever since Stephane Mallarme's paean to I'azur. "In my pictures there are tiny forms in vast empty spaces. Empty space, empty horizons, empty plains, everything that is stripped has always impressed...
...year. Columns include "New Wheels" (births), "Gear Box Groanings" (illnesses), and "Silent Wheels" (deaths). There are also pamphlets laced with trucking metaphors like "highballing to heaven." The Bible is "the road map of life," and drivers are urged to "gear with God-you'll pull no loads in neutral." Drivers who have heeded Keys' message range from those who have given up alcohol, drugs or reading pornographic paperbacks to those who seem to find Jesus a substitute for NoDoz-and sometimes a tranquilizer. "I know Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of my Life," wrote one California trucker...
...international public opinion, deceived by the Nixon administration's propaganda, began by reacting moderately to the criminal coup d'etat of March 18 which the CIA had fomented to destroy an independent, peaceful and neutral Cambodia, the armed invasion with its attendant grief and destruction gave the world the most flagrant proof of the true nature of American imperialism and its participation in the coup...