Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yugoslavia, Kennan is trying to prod an ideologically hostile country toward genuine neutrality; in Japan. Ed Reischauer has the opposite task: he must keep an essentially friendly country from moving toward neutrality-or worse. Neutralism, Reischauer believes, is a more potent threat in Japan than Washington realizes. Though the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party has a safe two-thirds majority in the Diet, it commands only about 60% of the popular vote. If this margin swings to the solidly neutralist opposition, the U.S.-Japanese alliance would almost certainly be scrapped, and, argues Reischauer, "neutralism, if not open pro-Communism, would...
...Potent Precautions. More likely, Nasser's newest venture into troubled waters involves Kuwait. On Christmas Eve Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, keenly interested onlooker in India's invasion of Goa, said that he would follow suit by "liberating" the oil-drenched sheikdom "in the coming days." In the past, Nasser has had as little use for Kassem as for Arabia's harem kings, but recently there have been rumors of a reconciliation...
...made the whole enterprise so offensive was India's past relentless posture of ethical superiority and its present hypocritical attempts to justify the invasion on moral grounds. India, argued Krishna Menon, was really defending itself because "colonialism is permanent aggression.'' Forgetting his manufactured threat of a potent Portuguese defending army, Nehru said: "The justification of this action is that it lasted only 36 hours.''* Added Krishna Menon: "If there was a strong government in Goa, why did it not resist...
...appealed to both countries for a "peaceful settlement" of the issue. In The Netherlands, Foreign Minister Luns is propelled toward negotiation by the obvious reluctance of the Dutch to get involved in a pointless colonial war. A majority of the Cabinet also backs negotiations but a stubborn and potent minority, including Luns himself and Home Affairs Minister Edzo Toxopeus. wants Papuan self-determination guaranteed by the Indonesians before sitting down to the conference table. In Indonesia, Sukarno is restrained by the fact that an invasion of New Guinea is a far more risky military operation than was the Indian walkover...
Connecticut's small (1,075 men) Wesleyan University in Middletown is brimful of new ideas, is rated by educators as among the nation's liveliest. But the region around Wesleyan is also brimful of potent rivals, and Wesleyan has long lost top applicants to better-known Harvard, Yale, Amherst and Williams. Now President Victor L. Butterfield, once a canny Cornell quarterback, has called a play that may gain Wesleyan half a Harvard Yardage. Eying Harvard's Radcliffe, Butterfield wants Wesleyan's trustees to approve a similar "coordinate" college for women. Most men no longer seek "monastic...