Word: neutralistic
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Only a week after he arrived amid elaborate ceremonies as the first Russian en voy to Laos, Ambassador Aleksandr Abramov sat in shirtsleeves in a seedy hotel room in Vientiane and fumed. King Savang Vatthana had pointedly declined to invite him to present his credentials. Neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma canceled the important bad ceremony, in which Buddhist priests were to tie a lucky string around Abramov's wrist. And Souvanna announced the "technical arrest" of Paratroop Captain Kong Le, Vientiane's military boss, on the ground that the expansive reception he staged for Abramov had been unauthorized...
...accepting any compromise. Castro may yet learn that he cannot impose unlimited drafts on the endurance and loyalty of the Cuban people, and any Cuban regime which hopes to carry out his ambitious social programs will need aid. But there will be no hope for at least a neutralist Cuba, accepting aid from both East and West, until the embargo goes...
...trained honor guard and a line of kneeling girls in sarongs who offered him silver bowls heaped with flowers. Also amiably on hand to greet the Russian: slim Captain Kong Le, Laos' current hero, whose military coup in August overturned the pro-Western government and brought to power neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma. Captain Kong Le is so politically innocent that he had to ask a Western journalist what was meant by "neutralismo...
Four years ago the U.S. was anxiously instructing all the world's neutrals in the dangers of Communism, worriedly warned that the devious Communists would worm their way into any neutralist regime and make off with it. The U.S. has learned that a strong nationalist government, firmly rooted in its own people, can defend itself against Communism's blandishments and pressures, not on behalf of the West but on its own behalf. In their turn, neutralists have watched Communism operate, and learned to be wary. India has learned that Red China talks peace but grabs off border lands...
...nation: that beneficial isolation which relieves new countries of the risks of associating themselves with big power rivalries. It does not mean neutralism that sees no difference between democracy and Communism. It does mean that the U.S. can support the noncommitment expressed by one Indonesian: "We are not neutralist; we are independent...