Word: neutralistic
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...most worrisome sign was the renewed shooting in Laos (see THE WORLD). A Communist takeover there, President Kennedy warned at his press conference, would "put additional pressure" on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam, as well as on neutralist, militarily feeble Cambodia...
...Communism's noneconomic blunders and failures contributed to the great deflation. The Berlin Wall gave the world an abiding lesson in the realities of life under Communism. The Chinese invasion of India's borderlands last year recklessly alienated the biggest free-world nation, the leader of the neutralist bloc. The open ideological clash between Moscow and Peking demolished the facade of Communist unity. Khrushchev has political troubles within his own government. When he said in a speech that, having just turned 69, he could not be expected to hold his posts "for all time," Western experts read...
...three weeks, the Red forces, reinforced by cadres of Viet Minh troop commanders, mortar specialists and artillery advisers from Communist North Viet Nam, had been nibbling away at neutralist positions around the 30-mile perimeter of the grassy, pool-table-flat Plaine des Jarres. Strategically placed in the center of Laos, the plain-named after the ancient stone burial jars still found in the area-controls the approaches to the rest of the country and is the primary access route to North Viet Nam. With the Plaine des Jarres in their hands, the Reds could solidify their hold...
...Fleeing Neutralists. The week began with a desperate flight to the plain by Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma, who hoped it still might be possible to arrange a cease-fire between the Communist Pathet Lao and Neutralist Army Chief Kong Le. Things seemed cheery enough as the opposing leaders embraced and their troops exchanged cigarettes. But. as one neutralist put it, "we exchange cigarettes during the day and bullets at night." All too true. Hardly had Souvanna departed when the truce abruptly collapsed...
...taxes, both of which are strongly opposed by large and small businessmen; perhaps significantly, Liberal Party Leader Giovanni Malagodi, an economic conservative who sharply criticizes Fanfani's flirtation with the left, has been drawing large and enthusiastic crowds. Another anxiety created by the center-left coalition is that Neutralist Nenni will weaken Italy's ties to the Atlantic alliance. These fears could cost Fanfani's Christian Democrats as many as 1,000,000 votes...