Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other neighbors. Even now I would like to invite President Assad, King Hussein and President Sarkis to join the peace process. I can go to Damascus and to the capital of Jordan and the capital of Lebanon, or they can come to Jerusalem or we may meet at a neutral spot and let us try hard to bring peace. But if the answer is negative, and so far it has been, we must be patient. If we improve relations between Egypt and Israel, this may serve as a living example for our other neighbors...
...went off to report the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance. But to most front-line journalists nowadays, carrying a weapon while on assignment is a grievous offense against professional ethics. It also means forfeiture of a journalist's status under international law as a neutral noncombatant, and it encourages troops to consider all journalists as fair targets...
...conflicts might argue that a side arm is not much protection in a rocket attack. But reporters in Rhodesia counter that their war is different: there are no battle lines, no secure areas∕and every white man is a guerrilla target. "There is no such thing as a neutral here," says one freelancer. "If you've got a white face, you are the enemy. This is a race...
Thailand's capital, Bangkok, offered another neutral porthole for viewing the war-from 700 miles away. In the tradition of Lisbon in World War II and Beirut through the course of Middle East conflicts, Bangkok is a marketplace of intelligence and Asia's foremost rumor mill. In hopes of assembling a credible montage, diplomats and newsmen sifted through a cacophony of refugee reports, propaganda releases and tidbits of hearsay from stateless businessmen and drifters. The results were sometimes useful, but often not. Besides the Haiphong bombing, Bangkok "sources" served up the war's next most misleading report...
...fears that an action expressing the will of the majority of the Harvard community is potentially oppressive to some vague minority of individuals. (Which individuals, with what stakes, we ask?) He contorts logic to imply that the present University position is neutral--he is always trying to elevate his position to the pedestal of the neutral. Come now. Is an untenured professor any safer speaking out for divestiture today than he or she would be speaking out for aid to aprtheid after divestiture had occured...