Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peripatetic President Sukarno at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington with full ceremonial honors and a 21-gun salute. (Sukarno never forgave Dwight Eisenhower for once keeping him waiting ten minutes for an appointment.) The two Presidents conferred for four hours, then issued a communiqué calling for a neutral Laos and declaring that newly independent nations "must be alert to any attempts to subvert their cherished freedom by means of imperialism in all its manifestations." Carefully avoided: any U.S. comment on Indonesia's claim to Netherlands New Guinea. Also diplomatically hushed up was the fact that another distinguished...
...shall turn for aid in building our economy." In a joint communiqué, Souvanna blamed the U.S. for having "supported rebel elements in Laos" and for what he called interfering in his nation's internal affairs. Souvanna has obviously decided which side to be neutral...
...order to get the fighting stopped, the U.S. has abandoned position after position. It has ceased hoping for a neutral government with a few Communists in peripheral posts. It no longer insists on the verification of a ceasefire. The procedures to be adopted by the International Control Commission of India, Canada and Poland remain extremely vague, and there is not even a definition of what constitutes the government of Laos...
...find out what's on each other's minds and if we have minds," Goldwater reserved substantial time for questions. In answer to a query concerning neutralism, he called neutral countries not so much "immoral" as "weak." "There are too many neutral nations--we must get rid of them or shift them to our side...
...value in small, tactical atomic weapons. If it comes to war, we shall use only the biggest weapons." Khrushchev doubted-as he has doubted all along-that Russia can come to terms with the U.S. on nuclear inspection, citing, among other reasons, his objection to a "neutral" (i.e., nonCommunist) administrator I here are no neutral men," said Khrushchev "I will never entrust the security ot the Soviet Union to any foreigner...