Word: neutralistic
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After a seven-day visit with his neutralist pal, Marshal Tito, Algeria's President Ahmed ben Bella last week set off for home. By rights, Ben Bella should have flown 1,060 miles southwest to Algiers. Instead, his Russian-piloted Ilyushin-18 plane headed north and touched down at France's Melun air port, 26 miles from Paris. There, a helicopter was waiting to hustle Ben Bella to the Chateau de Champs for a conference with Charles de Gaulle...
...five months, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was in South Viet Nam to see what should-or could-be done about that frustrating, dragging war. This trip was the result of a new and disturbing series of events-the second coup in Saigon; De Gaulle's "neutralist" lures; terrorism by the Communist Viet Cong against Americans; the inability so far of South Viet Nam's latest strongman, 36-year-old General Nguyen Khanh, to get the government on the offensive...
...hard twists. Regardless of what economic aid he can offer, the General is a sympathetic figure to Latin Americans of almost every political hue. His military uniform, and the order and prosperity he has brought to France appeal to the rightists. The grant of Algerian independence and his neutralist foreign policy appeal heavily to the left. Most of all, he has led a small country in dignified and reasonable resistance to the dogmatism of the United States...
Spoils for Generals. For all his efforts, Khanh has as yet made no great impression on the mass of the population, and has yet to prove the charge he invoked to justify his coup-a purported "neutralist plot" within the former junta. It is far from certain that all the military are behind him. But he has rewarded his chief collaborators hand somely. Major General Tran Thien Khiem, whose III Corps troops arrested former Junta Boss General Du ong Van ("Big") Minh, got the No. 2 military job as Defense Minister and commander in chief. But among the ranks...
Greece and Turkey immediately accepted the plan; Greek and Turkish Cypriots rejected it. Russia, ever eager to fish in troubled waters, insisted on a United Nations truce force, which Moscow hoped to control by virtue of its veto in the U.N. Security Council. Bearded Archbishop Makarios, neutralist President of Cyprus, would also prefer a U.N. mission, since he fears that a NATO contingent would lead to an actual partition of the island between Greek and Turkish communities. Nonetheless, Makarios knows well that if he rejects the Anglo-U.S. proposal, he will risk renewed savagery and possible invasion of Cyprus...