Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind again, as he has before. In a formal note to Washington, he called for a halt to all American economic and military aid, which in the past eight years has amounted to $366 million. And so the J.S.-already striving to save war-torn South Viet Nam and "neutral" but tottering Laos from the Reds-faced another mess in Southeast Asia...
Whatever its frustrations and contradictions, Colombo provides the West with a link of sorts to almost all of non-Communist Asia. The recipients need the money, no matter how neutral they would like to be. At week's end, the conference agreed to hire an expediter for the regional training program, admitted a 21st member (the Maldive Islands, a British protectorate southwest of India), and hinted that more donor nations would be welcome. Leading candidate for an invitation: West Germany...
...seeking a "special relationship" with West Germany. Despite breast-beating denials in Paris, the terms of the treaty quite clearly ally the two republics in a "special" way. More recently, France has made her presence felt in the Far East. De Gaulle's periodic call for a united, neutral Viet Nam "free of foreign influences" has brought several complaints from Washington. Furthermore, French businessmen and government officials are traveling regularly to Communist China with the intent of securing better trade relations...
Certainly, as students we must never close our minds to those who disagree with us. But we must also recognize our own responsibility to the college and to society to maintain certain minimal standards of scholarship. Sponsorship is not a neutral activity--especially for a partisan political organization...
...agreement called for a neutral, demilitarized zone along the disputed border, without specifying the lines to which Moroccan and Algerian troops should withdraw. The foreign ministers of the 32-nation Organization of African Unity, set up last spring at Addis Ababa, were to arbitrate the entire border issue, but their recommendations would not be binding. The Algerians later claimed that the agreement called for the Moroccans to evacuate the two small desert oases where the fighting began; the Moroccans hotly denied...