Word: neutralism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after Evita's death, it became apparent that Perón was spending much more than the government was taking in. In fact, he had been squandering the huge profits that Argentina had accumulated as a neutral supplier of foodstuffs during and after World War II (making it then the richest country in Latin America, with foreign-currency reserves totaling $1.7 billion). The nationalized industries stagnated; inflation soared. Even the workers began to have second thoughts about el Líder as their paychecks purchased less...
...aide muses: "The EEC is confining for Germany. What would be the German reaction in five years if the Soviets offered them reunification?" The French answer their own question. The Germans "would pack up their dossier and return to Bonn," drop out of the Common Market and become a "neutral" as the price for getting back East Germany...
Brandt's aides retort that the German government has no intention of turning neutral, nor could it economically afford to leave the EEC. The real culprit, they say, is Paris, whose obfuscations and petty legalisms have stalled progress in the EEC for so long that many West Germans have grown irritated and disillusioned...
...representatives just wanted a "neutral" resolution in the face of the UFW-Teamster struggle in California," Frank said yesterday. "They hate to take sides between the Teamsters and the AFL-CIO" which supports...
Giving poultry away free to a hungry neutral group of people might be a constructive challenge for the Administration...