Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Reagan said yesterday night the United States is neutral in the bitter Philippines presidential election, and announced plans to send veteran U.S. diplomat Philip Habib to Manila to "help nurture the hopes and possibilities of democracy...
...enraged Kline to hear, as he often did, that these works imitated Oriental calligraphy. The calligrapher's white paper is always neutral, a void, whereas Kline wanted his whites to be seen for what they were--blocks and patches of pigment, as painted as the blacks. Moreover, he disliked the word's pseudospiritual aura. Those black strokes were the residue of a tough, specific place, one to which David Smith's sculpture also appealed: a world of trestles and girders, piers and railbeds and X braces, of sooty industrial silhouettes and locomotives highballing through the lonesome American dark...
...Executive President of South Africa as my friend, if it shocks you or not," Savimbi told 60 Minutes. While Savimbi has proposed giving up South Africa's support for U.S. aid, Shultz has argued that open U.S. aid would jeopardize relations with black African nations and compromise the neutral American role in persuading South Africa to withdraw from Namibia, the former territory of South West Africa that borders Angola. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker has been pursuing a diplomatic solution that would consist of a Cuban withdrawal from Angola in return for a South African withdrawal from Namibia. Afterward...
...entire brouhaha over "politicizing" the council has focused on a single issue: divestment. And there has been a good reason, up to now, for the council to be neutral on divestment: no one knew for sure how the majority of students felt about the issue...
...came from a West European consortium of defense contractors, including British Aerospace; the other was made by Sikorsky, a division of the U.S. conglomerate United Technologies. Defense Minister Heseltine supported the European bid, arguing that it alone would keep helicopter technology in Britain. Thatcher maintained that she was neutral on the competing rescue plans, but Heseltine accused her of favoring the U.S. offer and resigned after an icy confrontation...