Word: neutralistic
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...Laos for precisely the same reason: both countries feel that their presence is necessary to prosecute the war in Viet Nam. Neither side will admit publicly the full extent of its involvement because both are acting in violation of the 1962 Geneva accords, which attempted to impose a neutralist settlement on this divided country...
Politically, the U.S. found itself backing a brace of hopelessly ineffective right-wing leaders. After 1962, U.S. support grudgingly switched to Souvanna, who had previously been ignored if not excoriated for his neutralist views...
...contest on nationalism sponsored by the Saigon daily Tieng Not Dan Toe (Voice of the People). The competition was the idea of the paper's 29-year-old publisher, Ly Quy Chung, a member of the National Assembly's lower house and a leading supporter of a neutralist "third force" settlement of the war. The winning essays, like Chung's editorial policies, tended to be antiwar and implicitly critical of the U.S. presence. But they are not primarily political documents. Many were written by teachers; but students, soldiers and workers, almost all from rural areas, contributed...
...regime? It is hardly a secret that the amiable general is no strongman. The Communists are confident that any Minn-led government would soon fall apart, leaving the N.L.F. to pick up the pieces. Lately, Minh has been sniping at Thieu's policies and presenting himself as a neutralist alternative. Last week Minh proposed that the country's allegiance to the Thieu government be tested in a referendum or by "some other formula." Thieu has ignored...
...public would accept a neutralist government, committed neither to the U.S. nor the Communists, by a 71% to 12% margin. However, the public is willing, by 47% to 26%, to sacrifice the present Saigon government if that is the only way to peace, while the leaders, 62% to 22%, are even more agreeable to the idea. The partitioning of South Viet Nam, under which the Viet Cong would rule those parts of the country it controlled and the Saigon government the rest, is supported by a 42% to 29% margin among the people and 53% to 33% among the leaders...