Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laotian river town of Houei Sai, evacuated in panic after the fall of Nam Tha, was reoccupied by 300 skittish Royal Laotian Army troops. If anything, the Pathet Lao had retreated, not advanced. With Soviet Russia giving at least verbal agreement to the U.S. policy of creating a neutral Laos, it was apparently time once again to bring together the three idiosyncratic princes who lead the different Laotian factions...
...first few years of life can affect development of delinquency in three ways: (a) by contributing to the formation of traits shown to be significantly associated with antisocial tendencies in children; (b) by rendering criminogenic some traits which, in the absence of such malign family influences, are usually neutral; (c) by influencing delinquent trends quite apart from the influence of the delinquency-linked physiologic, neurologic or paychologic factors...
What bothered Adenauer most was the fear that Communist East Germany would win a measure of "recognition" from a 13-nation "access authority"-including neutral Austria, Sweden and Switzerland-that the U.S. has suggested might control the land and air corridors to Berlin. Said Adenauer: "The whole scheme is unworkable. The three neutrals would have to make decisions. If one asks these states, 'Will you do this?', I believe they will...
...attitude toward ex-Nazis not guilty of specific crimes. (" 'Good Lord,' I asked myself, 'how often shall victory and persecution alternate with each other?' ") But last week even Gorbach's conciliatory skills could not budge the U.S. from its stand opposing Market entry of neutral nations...
...acknowledges that, unlike traditional neutrals Sweden and Switzerland, with whom Austria filed a joint membership application, Austria is in a "special situation," thrust into involuntary neutrality as a Soviet condition in its 1955 peace treaty. U.S. officials appreciate Gorbach's argument that, while Austria is neutral, it is not neutralist; its sympathies are with the West. Moreover, argues Gorbach, 55% of Austria's trade is with Common Market countries. But Washington feels that neutrals should not share in the economic advantages of the Market unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their national sovereignty in economic...