Word: neutralizing
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After Argentina invaded the Falklands last April, Kirkpatrick cautioned that the U.S. should remain neutral lest Washington force Buenos Aires into the orbit of the Soviet Union. When the Administration eventually accepted Haig's argument and took Britain's side, Kirkpatrick spoke against providing London with military intelligence and equipment. Alexander Haig...
Molyneux also attacks the notion that the University can remain "neutral" on issues such as divestment of holdings in companies linked with South Africa. And although Harvard claims it has little impact on the actions of other institutions, says Molyneux, President Bok's statements on South Africa and other issues always appear in The New York Times. The Boston Globe and even in the white South African press. "He uses publicity when he refuses student demands, not when Harvard takes one of its few steps to meet its social responsibility...
...there's no reason they should." He adds that the administration's policy is to oppose whatever student protesters suggest, on the grounds that they don't want to give in to student pressure. He concludes emphatically, "What emerges is a fairly conservative world view which is not neutral at all...He is playing a positively negative role," Molyneux says...
...month: "It is already clear that the country that will lose the most in this confrontation between Britain and Latin America will be the U.S." Panama President Aristides Royo has accused the U.S. of betraying its Latin neighbors by "changing hats and choosing sides when it should have remained neutral." Most U.S. experts take Latin America's anger seriously. Says Robert Leiken of Georgetown University: "This has struck a very deep nerve." The U.S. is viewed as tricky, sly and selling out its Latin friends...
...imposing sanctions against Argentina, the U.S. has once again chosen a disastrous foreign policy. America should have followed a strictly neutral course. Latin America is a big and powerful bloc with huge mineral and food resources. Unfortunately, the U.S. underestimates Latin America and will come to regret its latest step...