Word: neutralism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the war, Honeywell produced the BLU-26/B "guava" bomb. This bomb was first used in secret air raids on neutral Laos in 1966. One mother bomb contains 600 to 700 guavas, each of which releases high-speed steel pellets upon explosion, as well as hot plastic fragments which are undetectable by X-rays when embedded in the body. These pellets can't pierce steel, cement, or sandbags--they are designed to tear unprotected human flesh. One mother bomb can saturate an area the size of ten football fields with lethal shrapnel. Time-delay fuses are designed to explode...
Scrupulous Neutral. Meanwhile, South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Vuong Van Bac visited Saudi Arabia to remind King Faisal that on Middle East issues the Thieu government has been scrupulously neutral. The point was well taken, and South Viet Nam was certified as a customer. The Vietnamese would have to do their own contracting for the oil, but the U.S. could continue to pay for it at the higher prices. U.S. officials estimate that 10% of this year's $813 million in military aid for Viet Nam will flow into fuel...
...must import all of its oil. About 84% of it comes from the Middle East: 43% from Arab nations and the rest from Iran. Thus, Japan was an obvious target when Saudi Arabia and the sheikdoms decided to turn off the pipeline spigots. Being forced to change its traditionally neutral policy in the Middle East toward a pro-Arab stance was particularly humiliating for a nation in which saving face is synonymous with preserving honor...
...prepared for the contest with high spirit and keen concentration. Bumper stickers in Raleigh admonished: STOP THE WALTON GANG. Though the event was televised nationally, some 4,000 State fans journeyed by chartered plane, bus, private car and even motorcycle to St. Louis, where the Shootout was held on neutral ground. Coach Norm Sloan claimed that his team was doing nothing very special to gear up: "We really don't have anything to prove," he said before leaving for St. Louis. But 7 ft. 4 in. Center Tom Burleson was busy studying films of his opposite number, Bill Walton...
...politely applauding alumni, it will be difficult to generate any significant noise with which to psyche out the B.U. hockey team or its fans. As one former Harvard player said about the Crimson's home ice advantage, "There are two types of games at Harvard, away games and neutral ones...