Word: neutralistic
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...eight months since the 14-nation Geneva conference established Laotian neutrality last summer, neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma's left-right-center coalition government has displayed a remarkable record of consistency: it has failed to carry out one single provision of the Geneva accords. Rent by internal dissension, the government has been unable to maintain a ceasefire, evict all foreign military personnel from Laos, integrate the three military and political factions, or hold free elections. But the supposedly "neutralist" government has recognized every country in the Communist bloc, and has done so little to halt the rampant inflation that...
...Plaine des Jarres, headquarters of both the neutralist and Communist Pathet Lao armies, the Reds have begun a campaign to infiltrate and subvert the forces of their onetime neutralist allies. Farther north, thousands of Red Chinese workers have crossed into Laos to build roads linking China's Yunnan province with Communist-held areas of Laos itself. Armed with new Red Chinese automatic weapons, the Pathet Lao is attacking neutralist villages on the supply lines between the Plaine des Jarres and Communist North Viet Nam to the east. Many neutralists have openly defected to the Reds, adding to Westerners...
Died. Colonel Ketsana Vongsouvanh, 35, second-in-command to Neutralist Laotian Army General Kong Le, one of the original 17 officers who helped Kong Le carry out his 1960 coup d'état, a man considered violently anti-American until last year when he reportedly began reversing his ideas; by assassination (he was shot in the back while relieving himself behind his home); in Phongsavan at Plaine des Jarres. The murder, widely believed to be the work of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, happened only 36 hours after Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma left on a world tour...
...second popular half-truth is that de Gaulle is trying to build a neutralist "third force." Sometimes it is given suggested that his ulterior goal is a separate French bargain with the Soviets (a prospect which doubtless alarms the Harvard community less than it does the public at large). This particular myth has gone so far that the recent renewal of an old Franco-soviet trade agreement was described in the press as the harbinger of disaster...
...that Africa and Asia are imperiled by a "second scramble" of colonization, led this time by Communist powers, "who are committing the same crime as the capitalists before." Shortly thereafter, the head of the Indian delegation denounced the organization as a "fraud," stomped out of the hall because his neutralist resolution on the Sino-Indian dispute was torpedoed. During a debate on Malaysia, the delegate from Singapore was barred, and an Indonesian was accepted as Brunei's representative...