Word: neutralistic
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...South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu a chance to consolidate his military and political position. Instead of keeping Cambodia nonCommunist, the American incursion helped catalyze the minuscule pro-Communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas into a movement of na tional scope. It pushed Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a dedicated neutralist who was overthrown as Cambodia's ruler in spring 1970, reluctantly into the hands of Hanoi and Peking...
Compromise seems possible in Laos, where more than one decade of war has made refugees of one-third of its 3,000,000 people. The government of neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma and representatives of his half brother Prince Souphanouvong, who leads the Hanoi-backed Pathet Lao forces, appear ready to try yet another coalition government, as they have done unsuccessfully twice before in the past 19 years. Diplomats in Vientiane report that the Pathet Lao, whose army controls 80% of Laotian territory and about one-third of its population, won most of the concessions in the draft agreement. Although Souvanna...
...outside world, Peronist Argentina has hopes of playing an important neutralist role. Last week, while Perón received congratulations from Rumania's Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, Cámpora went off to an audience with Pope Paul VI, an honor that Perón himself was recently denied...
...must also respect the political p. visions of the Laos agreement by not inciting the Lao rigntists--such as Phoumi Nosavan--as it has in the past. The new Laos agreement accurately reflects the current social and political situation in the country--as exemplified by the provision for neutralist intellectuals to be mediators in the new coalition government. The question is: will the agreement have a chance to take effect before the Central Intelligence Agency begins demolition...
Both the United States and Hanoi have stated that the South Vietnamese people have a right to self-determination. When the fighting stops, that right will be a mockery unless Thieu releases the neutralist and communist political prisoners who have been rounded up during the war. One of the first actions our government must require of Thieu under what appears to be a plan of continued American patronage is that political prisoners be released and allowed to take part in the council of reconciliation...