Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is still no sign, however, that the Viet Cong has suffered any significant loss of its capability to strike when and where it likes. Viet Cong casualties are negated by the hundreds of new Communist infiltrators who stream across the border from "neutral" Laos into South Viet Nam every month. Intelligence officers suspect that the Viet Cong is moving in the new units for a big push during the rainy season, when the government's airlifting and air-striking power will be grounded. Already the reinforcements have emboldened the Viet Cong to strike prepared government positions...
Because hydrogenation of vegetable oils-to keep spreads and shortenings fresh and solid at kitchen temperature-saturates them to varying degrees, Procter & Gamble Co. has spent millions of dollars on research and on revamping its manufacturing process to bring out the new Crisco, only 25% saturated, 44% to 50% neutral monounsaturated, and the rest polyunsaturated. New Crisco, says P. & G., has double the linoleic acid of the old formula and of competing brands as well. General Mills, Inc. is marketing a safflower cooking oil named "Saff-o-life" which, its ads say, is "38% higher in polyunsaturates than any leading...
...Western Thailand, whose territory is guarded by U.S. troops, and neutral Cambodia, whose territory is scarcely guarded at all, are both neighbors of embattled Laos and South Viet Nam. But in this part of the world, the god Siva can still seem more important than the ghost of Karl Marx, and what goes on in the Red guerrilla-infested rain forests less urgent than the news from the Jungle of Love...
...cameramen shouted for a word in English. Beaming. Souvanna replied: "I cannot speak English. I can only say-it is all O.K.'' Souvanna's enthusiasm was shared in Moscow. Nikita Khrushchev fired off a cable to President John Kennedy hailing the creation of a neutral Laotian government as "good news" in the "cause of strengthening peace in Southeast Asia." In Washington the mood was appropriately cooler. Kennedy replied that settlement of the Laos problem was a "milestone," but added warily that it was "important that no untoward actions anywhere" interrupt the progress already made...
...sixth time, the three Laotian princes met last week to hammer out agreement on a neutral, coalition government for their divided nation...