Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FINLAND is anxious to advance its role as an active neutral. At present the Finns badly need to sign a trade treaty with the nine-nation Common Market. But Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev has warned Finnish President Urho Kekkonen that the time is not right for Finland to make trade deals with the European Economic Community. Kekkonen, who places top foreign policy priority on maintaining friendly relations with the Kremlin, might be less reluctant to press ahead with an EEC trade treaty if Finland at the same time is the site of the security conference...
...will insure Saigon's compliance with the new agreement. Hopefully, President Thieu will noon realize that he can only obtain guarantees for the eventual withdrawal of the northern troops if all the political factions in the South agree beforehand that the victor in the elections will follow a strictly neutral foreign policy, release all political prisoners, guarantee individual liberties, and work diligently to rebuilt the country. Such an agreement should not be too difficult for Thieu since he and other South Vietnamese officials endorsed the idea of Southeast Asian neutrality following the November 1971 conference of the Association of South...
...when?the Red flag will go up over Saigon. Most experts now believe that the chances of a Communist takeover within the next five years are actually quite slim. Historically, strong central governments have been disliked in the South, and most of the Southerners are either anti-Communist or neutral. The Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army now control between one-third and one-half of the land but only an estimated 10% of the population, all in thinly settled rural areas. The crowded cities are heavily infiltrated by Viet Cong cadres, but they are all under non-Communist...
...their "recapture" by the U.S., though Washington spokesmen profess uncertainty as to what the terms actually mean.) U.S. officials hope to bring out the prisoners by sending Air Force C-141 Medevac planes directly to Hanoi; more likely the Communists will fly the men to Laos or some other neutral point. There, Operation Egress Recap will begin...
Communist in print, explaining that it would prefer them to use the more neutral terms North Vietnamese and Viet Cong...