Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successfully ending doubts, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev was doing his energetic best to sound like a man who was open to any reasonable compromise. At a Communist rally in East Berlin, Khrushchev casually announced: "We would not mind even if U.S., British, French and Soviet troops-or some neutral countries-maintained minimum forces in West Berlin." Scarcely had Khrushchev said it when Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt rejected the "offer" out of hand. It was, declared Brandt, no more than a scheme to get Soviet troops into West Berlin and "cook the city over a slow fire...
BERLIN, March 9--Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev proposed tonight to guarantee the independence of West Berlin with neutral or Big Four troops, provided the Western Allies end their military occupation of the city isolated in Communist East Germany...
...called upon the United States, Britain and France to avert the danger of World War III by accepting his proposals. In Washington, responsible officials firmly rejected Khrushchev's proposal to garrison West Berlin with Big Four or neutral troops...
...something like a miracle," said Cyprus' harried British governor, Sir Hugh Foot, whose nation had stood aside while the other parties to the dispute-Greece and Turkey-finally sat down together. Last week, after 55 hours of hard and friendly bargaining in neutral Zurich, Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis came down the main stairway of the Dolder Grand Hotel beaming at each other like a couple of old school chums. As they toasted each other in champagne, their staffs put the finishing touches on a 200-page outline constitution...
What had happened? Explained an embarrassed Electricity Board technician: "There was a break in the neutral connection in the three-phase supply that became unbalanced." None the wiser, the citizens of Carlecotes presented the board with the biggest electrical bill in the village's history. "We'll repair or replace everything damaged," promised a harassed official...