Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...housing to be approved by a community referendum before it can be built. No other housing is subjected to such a requirement, and blacks especially will be hurt by the ruling. But the court chose to extoll the virtues of democratic referendums and found that California's "seemingly neutral" law had no discriminatory intent. Last week the court further ruled that states are not required to carve up election districts having several legislators, though a state's refusal to convert to single-member districts usually leaves black voters greatly outnumbered and without representatives of their...
...proved more receptive than ever before to University counterattack: before long, most of the disrupters were spending their dinner hours defending the action to students who asked how anyone could excuse such a vicious attack on free speech at Harvard. Three years of explanation that the University was not neutral, that it was inextricably tied to the war-making apparatus of the monster society it lived in, that it could not honestly pose as the defender of liberal values-all seemed wiped out. More students than ever seemed willing to believe that Harvard could be a sanctuary, a safe liberal...
Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois has proposed that a commission from the Congress go to Viet Nam to make sure that the American Embassy is neutral in the coming elections. This would surely be seen as a sign that the Congress was neutral against President Thieu. His regime has severe corruption problems, and he has thrown some of his most prominent political opponents, not necessarily Communists, into jail. But his government is fairly effective and has shown remarkable staying power. It is not up to the U.S. to try to "dump" Thieu...
...hard to imagine, however, that such gestures could drastically alter the impression in South Viet Nam that Thieu is Washington's favorite. Last year, after all, Richard Nixon described Thieu as one of the "five or six greatest statesmen" in the world today. No matter how neutral the U.S. appears, Thieu is not likely to let the voters forget that overblown paean...
...York City is insufferably dirty, rude, crowded, expensive, unpleasant and even dangerous. Aside from the Communists and some Arab delegates who talk of moving to a more "neutral" country, those who would bail out want primarily to live in a less troubled place. Their preferences, in order: Geneva, San Francisco, Rome and even West Berlin. The stayers claim to like New York's cultural life and its unparalleled communications. One diplomat sighed, "We are just stuck here." That seemed to express a common worry: if the U.N. were to move away, the U.S.-which still picks...