Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formerly, Russia would agree only to three to five yearly inspections of Soviet testing sites, by a team of American and neutral scientists. The U.S. insisted on at least 10 to 12 inspections a year...
Second, the report claims that the race issue will become "politically neutral" with the next ten to fifteen years, allowing Republicans to attack the South's old rural and new urban economic problems: "As the race issue recedes as a political issue, economic questions will come to the forefront, and will have as much weight with the lower income whites as it will with the colored electorate." Even if race does cease to be a political issue, (which seems unlikely, since it has remained an issue in the "emancipated" North for a century) Negroes identified overwhelmingly with the Democratic Party...
...Senators -- and some Republicans -- have voiced strong criticism of further escalation. Counter-escalation by the Communists will augment anti-war sentiment in this country which, in turn, will reinforce Hanoi's belief that we will soon abandon our efforts. This vicious circle, coupled with mounting diplomatic pressure from the neutral countries to end the war, will very likely induce the American people to accept disengagement after years of enormous waste...
...being beaten and questioned by the secret police, the vegetarian wife, her hair in curlers, slowly descends the stairs uttering brusque commands in abysmal French. The secret police, rifles in hand, mumble and blush and leave abashed. After reading half the book, one learns that all situations have neutral endings--nothing is settled, no crisis is reached or even begun. Any interest the bizarre characters or ludicrous events might have created ebbs, leaving nothing in its wake...
...sides began quarreling over the first issue raised: what to call the transition state that is supposed to exist until a plebiscite can be held next year. The Royalists wanted the name to be Kingdom of Yemen but were willing to settle for a neutral title like State of Yemen. The Republicans insisted on having the word republic or republican in the title. In fact, about the only thing the two sides can agree on is to suspend the conference until after the month-long Islamic holy fast of Ramadan, which begins next week. Nothing doing, said both Feisal...