Word: neutralizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both parties to the armistice agreed not to bring any more weapons into Korea. They were to replace worn-out weapons only "on the basis of piece-for-piece of the same effectiveness and type," to be brought in only through specified ports of entry under the supervision of neutral inspection teams provided by Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czechoslovakia...
...soon the Reds were building railroad tracks around the specified ports of entry, running in trainloads of new equipment and stalling and frustrating visits by the neutral inspectors...
...year ago the outraged U.N. Command retaliated by ousting neutral inspection teams from South Korea, but continued to honor its own commitments. Though the Reds had neither jet planes nor operational airfields to handle them in North Korea at war's end, they had more than 500 jet fighters and 25 airfields there by this spring. (The U.N. has had six squadrons of F-86s on station since the armistice.) The two U.S. divisions in South Korea made do with old weapons, some no longer included in U.S. Army basic training. North Koreans and Chinese armored themselves...
Finland, unlike the Scandinavian countries, maintained its invitation to the Russian leaders after the Soviet brutality in Hungary, but only because, say quietly bitter Finns, their country must be "something between a neutral and a satellite...
...gubernatorial mansion, Michigan's boyish Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams staged a cow-milking contest on the front lawn of the statehouse (for Lansing's June Dairy Month). Snuggling up to a Guernsey, Princeton-educated Soapy seized the controls confidently, but could not shift out of neutral, squeezed out fourth in a field of four. Winner: Lansing's Mayor Ralph Crego...