Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States and its ally, the Royal Lao Government headed by Prince Souvanna Phouma, control about six cities, including Vientiane (which is officially neutral), Luang Prabang, the royal capital, and several small "strategic hamlets." The rest of the country, or about 98 per cent of the area, is subject to continual bombardment from U.S. jets...
...recent weeks, however, both sides have increased the frequency and ingenuity of their initiatives. Nixon's proposal to have all prisoners interned in neutral Sweden for the duration has apparently come to nothing. But Hanoi has seemed to crack open a few doors toward broader negotiation, although the Communists will probably let serious initiatives wait until the U.S. withdrawal proceeds still further and the South Vietnamese elections approach next fall. By then, American bargaining leverage will be diminished, and there may be signs of new political alignments in Saigon more amenable to making concessions that could bring peace...
...point order instructed the Viet Cong not to attack G.I. units that refrained from hostile action. G.I.s desiring to slip over to the other side would need only to flash some antiwar literature to secure safe conduct into V.C. territory. Defectors would be assured help in getting to a neutral country-or home to the U.S. if they wanted. But those who would stay and fight with the Viet Cong would find themselves in line for unspecified "appropriate rewards...
...Indians has flared up again. The federal government has completely sealed off West Pakistan from outside reports about the repressive army crackdown in East Pakistan. Denied reliable reporting, West Pakistanis tend to view the conflict as a sinister Indian plot to dismember their country. India has remained nominally neutral, but it has in fact given Bengali rebels a haven...
...neutral observers, the Washington hearings suggested that clear-cutting needs regulation. In the northern Rockies, for example, trees grow so slowly that clear-cutting is relatively unprofitable and a threat to that area's national forests as well. Since the danger is much less in other areas, the problem is how to make distinctions...