Word: neutralist
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...fact that?after 48 years of American occupation and two decades of independence?the Philippine Republic endures as Asia's freest democracy. It is no "showcase," to be sure, but it stands as a model of hope for all of non-Communist Southeast Asia: from the introverted Burma of Neutralist General Ne Win to the bankrupt chaos of Suharto's Indonesia; from royalist Thailand through Malaysia to trifurcated Laos; and certainly to South Viet Nam itself...
Prince Souvanna Phouma, the neutralist Premier of Laos, is a sophisticated fellow who was educated in Paris. He was in the U.S. last week to advise President Johnson on Asian policy and to discuss with Dean Rusk the problems of his own divided kingdom. Not once, however, did he mention the problem that matters most, because Washington, with all its marbled wisdom, just would not have understood. A dragon threatens to defeat him in the January elections...
...eggs are under guard in the headquarters of General Kong Le, commander of Souvanna Phouma's neutralist army. Kong Le got them from a peasant, who dug them up near the neutralist base two months ago. True enough, they did not really look like a dragon's eggs. They were hard-shelled and white, instead of being soft-shelled and mottled, as dragons' eggs in Laos usually are. But there was no mistaking them for the real thing: no sooner had the peasant taken them home than he fell into a delirium and was visited...
Hillier, too, has his private Gethsemane. A nominal Catholic, like the scientist, he plays the espionage game as a man who has withdrawn from both sides-a disillusioned and cynical neutralist, proud of his prowess in bed and at table. Aboard a ship bearing him to a Russian Black Sea port, Hillier gorges himself at both. In a stateroom, he literally tangles with an extraordinarily supple Indian girl who is an expert at the extracurricular forms to which the Kama Sutra is only a primer. In the dining room, an eating contest with another passenger becomes the most hilarious...
Burma's neutralist strongman Ne Win, whose nation shares 1,200 miles of border with Red China, feels secure enough to take a 21-month trip abroad - including a visit to the U.S. that he hardly would have considered making a few months ago. Having bitterly broken away from Malaysia a year ago and first set out on a violently anti-American, pro-Peking trajectory, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, himself a Chinese, has lately warmed up to Malaysia and now openly praises America's role in Viet Nam. Faced by the xenophobic madness...