Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month lull that Kennedy had asked for, Nikita Khrushchev intensified the cold war, with guerrilla warfare in Laos, subversion in South Viet Nam, and increased arms shipments to Cuba-Propaganda Windfall. When the President tried to halt the Communist thrust in Laos by proposing a cease-fire and a neutral status, with official hints of a U.S. "response" if the Communists did not accept his plan, his countrymen gave him plaudits for his coolness and courage. But in stark fact, Kennedy's move failed to achieve anything against the cunning and purposefulness of Nikita Khrushchev. The Russians have simply...
...Kennedy Administration has already encouraged the Indonesians (and alarmed the Dutch) by refusing to send a U.S. representative to ceremonies last month celebrating the installation of The Netherlands New Guinea's first elected council (23 of its 28 members are natives), in an effort to show itself neutral in the controversy...
They now want inspections to start four, instead of two years after the treaty is signed. They no longer agree to a control commission headed by a single neutral individual, similar to the U.N. Secretariat. The Soviets now demand a three man body. And they would allow only three veto-free inspections a year. The U.S. is asking...
...People's Party colleague, Leopold Figl, from the chancellorship. And although pro-Western Figl was kept on as Foreign Minister, Austria's relations with the Western powers were judiciously permitted to deteriorate until Raab, hat humbly in hand, could travel to Moscow as something of a neutral. On that trip in 1955, he took with him a delicate proposal: an offer of Austrian neutrality in return for his country's independence...
...weeks ago, that a rebel flare-up in Oriente province was "fed ideologically, economically and militarily" by the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo. The U.S., in turn, charged that Havana had maltreated 22 imprisoned Americans by failing not only to provide "needed foods and medicines," but by preventing the neutral Swiss from helping the prisoners...