Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the Viet Nam War, the U.S. justified its bombing raids on Cambodia by arguing that Cambodia was a neutral country being used by the Viet Cong to launch attacks on South Viet Nam. Now, ironically, William Clark is afraid that Nicaragua will strike against Honduras in order to stop the U.S.-backed contras who are operating from there...
...foot forward, and if figures are cited, they will almost certainly be accurate. But the reader wonders whether other facts and contrary arguments have been given their full weight. Skeptical questioning is missing. That is the role the press plays, and it plays it best when it keeps a neutral distance not too hand in glove with its source...
...scholar could shed the burdens of rank and power by refreshing themselves at the well of nature. A developed Japanese form of Rousseau's "natural man," living in harmony with a world he has not made, is to be found in the teahouse and the culture it epitomizes: neutral colors, simple gestures, the uncarved block, the silent garden, sober dress-and check your swords at the door...
...Washington's two-track approach-promoting negotiations in each country while giving military support to the government in El Salvador and the guerrillas in Nicaragua-has met with little success. In the past fortnight, two events took place in Costa Rica, a neutral neighbor, that illustrate both the hope and the frustration of finding a peaceful solution to the region's two civil wars. The first event: four noted Nicaraguan dissidents, who are opponents of the Sandinistas but are not associated with U.S.-backed guerrillas, offered to act as intermediaries between the Nicaraguan government and the insurgents...
...Treaty for the defense of the Pacific. He pledged that there is no country that the U.S. "will be able to rely on more than Australia." In a speech before Washington's National Press Club, Hawke added: "Australia is not and cannot be a nonaligned nation. We are neutral neither in thought nor action. We are linked with the U.S. by a whole range of common interests, attitudes, aspirations, institutions and perceptions...