Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...privileged classes and a foreign power [the U.S.]." Soon after entering Congress in 1967, he founded an antigovernment newspaper, Tin Sang (Morning News), which soon became the most controversial journal in Saigon. He traveled to Paris and called for the withdrawal of foreign troops and the establishment of a neutral provisional government in Viet Nam. Since then, he has had nothing but trouble. Duc was labeled a Communist lackey and denied an exit visa for other overseas trips. Tin Sang has twice been bombed, has had its presses drenched with gasoline and acid and set afire, and its editions have...
...been discussed at the hastily called Crimean summit conference two weeks ago attended by all Soviet bloc countries except Rumania. In what was read by observers as an outgrowth of that conference, Literaturnaya Gazeta, a leading Soviet weekly, last week reprinted a Polish article rebuking Rumania for taking a neutral position in the Chinese-Soviet dispute. In an even harsher tone-the official Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reported that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai would visit Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania this fall. Since all three nations have asserted varying degrees of independence from Moscow, the Budapest paper warned that Chou...
Nevertheless, rumors of coups persist as a kind of spectral presence. In a showdown, however, most observers feel that the military would not back Ky but would either remain neutral or support President Thieu...
...than it has soldiers (550). Du Pont, Uniroyal, Olivetti, Amo- co and other multinational giants have set up holding companies there and pay dividends and interest to them, taxfree. The holding companies then use the money to finance parent-company operations in other countries. Luxembourg is also a favorite neutral meeting ground for partners in joint ventures. "It's quite a problem finding names for all the holding companies," says Edmond Israel, a Luxembourg banker. "Sometimes we resort to the poets...
...that the seven-point Communist proposal was too vague, and asked for clarification of some of the points. Though no progress was yet evident at the conference table, North Vietnamese diplomats elsewhere dropped hints that they might be willing to tolerate for a number of years an independent if neutral government in South Viet Nam as part of a political settlement. So far, the U.S. is unwilling to sacrifice the duly elected Thieu. The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong played down Peking's notion of a multination Geneva conference, insisting that the way to a settlement could be found...