Word: neutralistic
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After all, they figured, Goulart was an old friend of the left, and Brazil's ambitions to be neutralist had made it one of the most conspicuous foot-draggers on any move to censure Cuba. But lately, Goulart has been exchanging letters with President Kennedy, has had a visit from Brother Bobby, and has been successfully negotiating with the U.S. for more financial aid. Without warning, the Solidarity Congress organizers found themselves trapped, tricked, merry-go-rounded, bureaucratized, buck-passed, blind-alleyed and discriminated against by Brazilian officialdom from Goulart on down...
There was, perhaps, cause for the President's casualness. For the U.S. has al ready given Laos quite a lot: $450 million since 1955, with precious little to show in return. Laos' Communist, neutralist and pro-Western factions, loosely stitched into a coalition government as a result of the Geneva agreement, are still at one another's throats. Communist troops from Viet Nam still prowl the country, in violation of the Geneva pact. Communist Pathet Lao troops still pillage and kill...
Boersner said that the United States should assume a pragmatic policy toward Havana "capable of adapting to changing circumstances. Castro should be closely watched for Titoist tendencies." If Cuba turned toward a neutralist position, the United States, Boersner felt, should reopen diplomatic relations with the island. But he cautioned that at present Castro was showing "Stalinist" rather than "Titoist" deviations...
...Reds' persistent subversion is alienating the top neutralist commanders, and last week an open split seemed a possibility. While showing a movie at his house on the Plaine des Jarres. the neutralist army's second in command, Colonel Ketsana Vongsouvanh, was shot in the back. At Ketsana's funeral last week, Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le, who once worked hand in glove with the Pathet Lao, made no effort to conceal his disenchantment with his former cohorts. "This odious crime," said Kong Le, "was the work of those who are under a foreign influence." Kong...
...neutralist officers wondered where the Reds would strike next. One recalled that a ranking Pathet Lao officer told him last fall that the Communists had plans for Kong Le's top four subordinates: "We are going to thoroughly liquidate all four of you." With Ketsana's death, there was one down and three...