Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson also had to weigh several other compelling considerations. One was the situation in Czechoslovakia, where the forces of liberalization and change were demanding ever more freedom-and getting it. Perhaps most significant was the demand for a neutral foreign policy. Even a few years ago, Moscow would have rudely condemned or cruelly crushed those making such demands. Now, Russia's rukrs were apparently prepared to yield (see THE WORLD). And a key factor in the Czechoslovaks' insistence on neutrality was apparently the same sort of disaffection with the Viet Nam war that has been plaguing U.S. citizens...
...announced he would enter the South Dakota primary; last week he said maybe not. Kennedy strength has been growing there. At Bowdoin College, McCarthy said he would "favor" Johnson over Richard Nixon in the general election; later at Racine, he mused aloud that, if eliminated himself he might be neutral next fall. "I have a commitment," McCarthy cracked, "as chairman of the [Senate] subcommittee on Africa that I might honor at the time with a last great safari...
...Johnson's campaign director describes it as "fertile ground" for McCarthy. So far, the President has shown no disposition to climb down from his above-the-battle aloofness. His supporters plan a heavy, if belated, advertising campaign. Most of the state's leading Democratic officeholders are studiously neutral in public and hostile to Johnson in private...
...college administrators must change their attitudes and actions or face a persistent no confidence vote from a majority of their student bodies. They will have to come to realize, as their students already have, that their vital yet vulnerable position in the Southern power structure can not be a neutral one. Southern black colleges will have to come to grips with this question and take a posture more in line with contemporary black student thoughts and concerns. Without this change, the schools will be torn internally, with students and administrators working at cross purposes...
...from such innovation, and there follows a lively competition to maintain the pace of change. Unavoidably, however, change introduces a measure of disequilibrium into the larger social system: second-, third-, and fourth-order effects take place, and while some of these are also beneficial, and some neutral, others are seriously harmful. As often as not, these harmful effects are experienced by persons who did not necessarily share in the original benefits, and only rarely are those who introduce the new technology automatically held accountable for the less desirable side effects. It thus becomes increasingly the task of government to trace...