Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early signs hardly seemed propitious. As representatives of Lebanon's fractious factions prepared to discuss the freshly announced cease-fire last week, the meeting was suddenly scrubbed because the delegates could not agree on where to gather. After a day of delicate negotiating, a neutral site for the newly formed "security committee" was chosen: a deserted bank building in the hamlet of Al Mahattah, halfway between the Druze town of Shuweifat and the Christian village of Kfar Shima, about three miles south of Beirut. Around 11 a.m. they began pulling up in their Land Rovers. Gathering in the same...
...open the highway south of Beirut and to set up a joint liaison center at which cease-fire violations could be reported. The delegates, however, failed to concur on who would be stationed at the outpost or where it would be located. Meanwhile, there is disagreement over the "neutral observers" in the field who will watch over the ceasefire. The U.S., along with the members of the Multi-National Force (France, Italy and Britain), are pressing for a force of 600 that would in some way be affiliated with the U.N. In a blistering speech to the U.N. General Assembly...
...arduous negotiations that led to the truce, Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar ibn Sultan and U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane purposely left certain provisions vague. The three main elements all require further tinkering: 1) the cease-fire will be monitored by "neutral observers"; 2) a Lebanese "security committee" will decide on a permanent force to patrol the Chouf Mountains; and 3) most important, Lebanon's major groups will be called together for a conference of national reconciliation. In addition to President Amin Gemayel, the dozen invitees include Camille Chamoun, head of the Christian Lebanese Front; Pierre Gemayel, the President...
...surgeons were truly impersonal (or, one might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go to the considerable trouble and risk of using their knives to remove the malignant growths in the body of civilization. They would always find comfortable refuge behind the question, "Am I my brother's keeper...
...victories and insanities alike. How can the period that encouraged the development of the Salk vaccine have also allowed for the maraudings of the Baader-Meinhof gang? Because the spirit of these years has moved equally through killers and benefactors, each propelled by the same wind whispering the same neutral message: stability is not a natural state; nothing ought...