Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything about the office smells of Americana. Sedate, sterile, wooden--the white church in the middle of Medford Square conjures up the archetypes of old New England. What isn't dark or neutral is flag-colored, like the fife-and-drum wallpaper that peels at its yellowed seams. A red telephone, the locus, sits ominously on the pastor's oaken desk. When it rings, the sound is shrill, urgent, like the Oval Office hot line or the Batphone. But to Pastor Tom Michael, the caller on the other end transcends Zbigniew Brzezinski or Commissioner Gordon. For when the enemy...
Harvard undergraduates trying to set up a Third World center here emphasize that the facility would prove an "option" for nonminority students as well. Jackson says, "We don't view the proposal as our own little island. A Third World center would be neutral ground for the entire University community." But Romney says whites at Yale have not fully accepted the Afro-Am center. "There's a lot of resentment--essentially, the issue is a primitive one. White students resent "Black students on campus...
Iraq also reported that 60 neutral ships trapped in the Shatt al-Arab waterway by the battle for Khorramshahr are now free to sail under the banner of the International Red Cross (IRC) into the Persian Gulf...
...danger to neutral vessels in the area was underscored by an ugly incident at Khorramshahr. Five ships that had been tied up in port left their berths when the fighting intensified for a safer anchorage in the middle of the Shatt al Arab. The ships were fired upon by the Iranians, and some crewmen who jumped into the river to escape the burning ships were shot at in the water. Both sides claimed the other was responsible...
...choice but to remain neutral. But the Administration made a vice out of a necessity by conveying the impression early in the war that its policy of non-involvement was closely linked to, if not dictated by, concern for the American hostages. President Carter worried out loud about the effect of the fighting on the captives. He thus deepened concerns around the world that his public toying with the idea of resupplying the Iranians if they released the hostages was not only inconsistent with neutrality but cynical and desperate as well...