Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such negotiation can reach a conclusion acceptable to both sides. Immediate elections in a country overrun by two armies seem out of the question, but a neutral coalition government with haps policed by the U.N., does not. Such a solution restored Laos to a degree of stability, after stability seemed impossible. It could certainly bring order to South Vietnam and permit the withdrawal of foreign troops...
...life he did not want his counsel to be a courtier, and in death he would not want his biography confined to eulogies," writes Sorensen. For all that, he candidly admits that his book "is not even a neutral account," but a loyal follower's tribute...
Despite its large population, East Pakistan is lightly held, with a single infantry division. New Delhi's propaganda insists that there will be no invasion, that India regards East Pakistan as a friendly neutral. Pakistani propaganda similarly works hard to woo the dominant Sikhs of India's Punjab, assuring them that every effort will be made to avoid damaging their sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar and urging that they sit out the war. Neither appeal is apt to be very successful...
...used floors like open terraces connected by cantilevered stairs and supported by interior columns. No longer load-bearing, walls could become curtains of glass; interior partitions could fall where whim or esthetics wanted them. Said Léger: "Corbusier made us a present of the white wall"-the perfect neutral setting for art. He hung stairs outside to leave interiors uncluttered. He lifted buildings on stilts, or pilotis, to free pedestrian space underneath, then doubled the available ground plan by building sheltered gardens on the roofs...
...Corvair for four months before the accident, under cross-examination she admitted that she had only a learner's driving permit. Her panic at the sight of the truck on a narrow road caused the ac cident, argued Costanzo. "It had nothing to do with oversteer, understeer, neutral steer or whatever.After 43 days in court, the jury wound up more impressed by the circumstances of the accident than by the configuration of the Corvair. By a vote of eleven to one, the jury acquitted G.M. of responsibility...