Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What can a small neutral nation such as Austria do to protect itself in a world of superpowers? Obviously, not very much. Restricted by its 1955 State Treaty to small-bore "conventional" weapons and by reasons of budget confined to only $18 million worth of new ones a year, Austria has had to adopt what one Defense Ministry spokesman calls a "lock-on-the-door" policy: "It isn't foolproof, but the housebreaker needs time to get in, and by then you can telephone the police...
...maintained that U.N. influence in the Vietnam war had to be exerted in directly through African and other neutral nations because North and South Vietnam and Communist China are not members...
...proponents claim that the amendment leaves California, like 32 other states, "neutral" in private real estate dealings. Negroes angrily charge that Section 26 amounts to state-enforced racial discrimination. Thus far Negroes testing Section 26 have lost a series of lower state court cases...
Yesterday's editorial in the CRIMSON, and Administration statements on Vietnam, obscure the real issue of the war. Both the editorial and the government hold out a hope that our improving military posture will force a negotiated settlement, creating a neutral coalition government. These positions draw attention from the central goal of American policy: preventing Communist domination of Vietnam. By clinging to this goal, the government forecloses all possibility of meaningful negotiation...
...Johnson Administration has stressed repeatedly its willingness to negotiate a settlement of the war at any time under any conditions. At the some time, however, according to Neil Sheehan in last week's New York Times, the United States "has made clear to Hanoi through neutral intermediaries and in the fine print of its public pronouncements that it will not countenance a Communist South Vietnam or the creation of any coalition regime in Saigon which might lead to a Communist seizure of power." The government seems to ask of Hanoi that it bring an end to guerrilla activities...