Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barry said he thought Russian strategy in Southeast Asia had changed during the last three years, and that the Russians now favored a neutral Southeast Asia...
...past, Israel has usually made routine complaints to the U.N. when there were truce breaches on the bristling border, then staged heavily retaliatory raids of its own. When such incidents came before the Security Council, the U.S. usually stayed neutral. This time Israel had followed U.S. advice and appealed for Security Council action-hence the U.S. policy switch to support Israel. At week's end the U.S. and Great Britain introduced a joint resolution that condemned "the wanton murder" and called "the attention of the Syrian Arab Republic" to the assembled evidence...
Those in Latin America who argue the need for widespread social changes used to regard the Roman Catholic Church as an enemy or a neutral -certainly not as an ally. But in several Latin American countries the late Pope John's influence - and in particular his 1961 encyclical Mater et Magistra, calling for social justice - set off a new spirit of reform and social action in the church...
Though it boasts one of the world's highest living standards, German-speaking Liechtenstein is in every happy sense a have-not nation: it has no unemployment, slums, Communists, crime, TV or radio station, airports, divorces or billboards. Neutral in both world wars, it has had no soldiers since 1939, when the only remaining warrior died in bed. Its maximum income tax rate is 10%; corporate taxes are so liberal that more than 2,000 foreign firms have registered headquarters in Vaduz. While it is a constitutional democracy, Liechtenstein virtually dispenses with politics. There are two parties, known...
Since it knows no sense of sin, and hence no reprisal for error, it is, at least by Western standards, passive, backward and neutral. Buddhism, says Theologian Paul Tillich, "gives no decisive motives for social transformation, and thus provides a nonpolitical opportunity for an invasion of Buddhist East Asia by the Communist quasi-religion with its hope for a transformed world." Although the Red Chinese are wooing the Buddhists everywhere, there is no real evidence so far that the Reds are using South Viet Nam's Buddhists, as the Diem government charges. On the other hand, Diem...