Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist presence in the ruins of Angkor was symptomatic of the war's tidal movement throughout Indochina. In supposedly neutral Laos, North Vietnamese forces overran and held the southern provincial capital of Saravane, which has for two years been a U.S. air-supplied island within the Communist-held countryside. The city's fall could well indicate that the Communists, who already control most of northeastern Laos, intend to tighten their grip on the country's southern reaches. In South Viet Nam, the Communists continued to step up the fighting in the northernmost I Corps with shellings, sapper...
...secure the city and airport. But the Communists continued to roam at will throughout the countryside, including the Angkor ruins, which the government declared an "open city" to prevent any battle damage. From art lovers around the world came messages appealing for both sides to consider the priceless ruins neutral. At week's end a convoy evacuated Angkor's French caretakers, including Curator Bernard Groslier. Scattered fighting was reported among the treasures...
Claiming that the University is not neutral with respect to society, the charter states that. "The HTFU shall defend and augment those aspects of the University which constitute its being a center of humanistic learning and shall actively oppose those aspects which contribute to what is oppressive in our society...
...Governor John Connally, in a well-organized drive to scuttle Yarborough. The conservative faction put together an effective campaign estimated to cost close to $2,000,000, relying heavily on television advertising, while Yarborough spent a meager $200,000. Connally's mentor, Lyndon Johnson, remained officially neutral, but Bentsen had the help of several old Johnson aides, including Press Secretary George Christian...
...both Bello's repressive measures and the workability of revolution in general. He asks a risky, rhetorical question of a foreign journalist: "Is it our fate to jump from the Wall Street pot into the Communist fire?", and he winds up forced to beg for refuge in a neutral embassy...