Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME'S suggestion that the Olympics be held permanently in Greece, Sweden or Switzerland [Feb. 11] is an inspired idea. It is worth adding the very significant offer by Greece to create a neutral Olympic territory-a kind of Vatican City of pure sport-administered by the I.O.C. or United Nations. This would seem to go a long way toward answering the objections regarding Greece's membership in NATO or possible political instability. And why not a permanent home for the Winter Olympics in Switzerland, the nation of all nations in the world with truly neutral international politics...
...prepared text, but he broke off from time to time for more candid remarks. Said Hammer: "He felt that the accusations that the Soviets went into Afghanistan to take over the country and threaten oil routes was 'sheer nonsense.' He said that Afghanistan had always been neutral, but suddenly the Soviet Union found itself with a hostile country on its southern border. He indicated that they only went in because they were invited in 14 different times by the two previous regimes." Hammer asked the Soviet President if he had any documentation. Brezhnev turned to an aide...
Defending the U.S., Hammer said he told Brezhnev that the Afghanistan invasion marked "the first time the Russians had crossed the border of a non-Warsaw Pact country, and that it was difficult for the U.S. to believe that if the Soviets could do that to a neutral country, using such great force, that they would stop in the future." Brezhnev offered no response...
...conferred during Sihanouk's visit to greet Cambodian refugees living there and pray with them in a service presided over by saffron-robed monks who later feted their former ruler with cakes and tea. The Prince, who is in the U.S. to generate support for a neutral Cambodia, is also visiting refugee groups to see how they fare in a faraway land. His estimate: "We are grateful to the U.S., but those who are displaced more than anything would like to be able to return to their homeland...
...three networks of having had "a field day playing Get Teddy." He also discovered an unnamed "veteran political observer" to explain it: "There's been so much garbage about how the press loves the Kennedys in recent years that the reporters feel they all have to establish their neutral credentials by knocking him around." Perhaps some of the boys on the bus have too much time for self-analysis...