Word: neutralize
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Anyone who has ever been in the Raft Race knows what fun it can be. Every year, one of the rafts seems to enjoy what President Reagan might call "a definite margin of superiority For one afternoon, the Charles becomes a microcosm of international relations, complete with superpowers, neutral parties, and unstable third-world entries from places as remote as South House...
...Boston-based importer of Russian wood products, lost money as a result, and the company sued the International Longshoremen's Association. Last week a unanimous Supreme Court agreed with Allied that the I.L.A. had engaged in a boycott that was illegal under federal labor laws designed "to protect neutral parties, the helpless victims of quarrels that do not concern them at all." Allied had been hurt, wrote Justice Lewis Powell, "as understandable and even commendable as the I.L.A.'s ultimate objectives may be." A lower court will set a price tag on the damages. Dock workers, who have...
...Communist Party newspaper, Brezhnev rejected President Reagan's proposal, made earlier this month, that the two leaders meet informally in New York this June after the disarmament talks at the United Nations General Assembly. Instead, the Soviet President proposed a "well-prepared" summit meeting with Reagan at a neutral site, such as Switzerland or Finland, some time next fall. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes responded that Reagan still hoped to see Brezhnev in June. "Right now there is no change of plans," Speakes said...
...assume he supported the war and to exhibit surprise at his recent public statements in favor of an eventual freeze on the production of nuclear weapons. Graham has been asked to explain this shift, and he says that his position on the Vietnam War, which he characterizes as "neutral," may have been wrong. Graham is also finding support from unexpected quarters: the Rev. Larry Hill, a member of the Society of Friends and the United Ministry, invited him last year to speak at a nuclear disarmament conference. Explaining the evangelical involvement in the issue. Smutny says. "We think...
With the 1950s came neutralism, or what Lottman calls "the third way." As the world divided itself between the United States and the Soviet Union, some writers and artists took sides, but many others looked for another way. They found it is a unified, neutral Europe but were soon disappointed--not with their ideal, but with politics in general. France was involved in Southeast Asia and Algeria. Studio's human rights excesses were becoming obvious and the U.S. had Korea. "The guns are speaking, "said writer Merleau-Ponty, "there is nothing left for us to do but remain silent...