Word: evenhandedness
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"The trouble with Nigeria," Sir Alec Douglas-Home once observed, "is that it is so complicated." Certainly this was true of the Nigerian civil war (1967-70), which was perceived by many foreigners as a brushfire rebellion in a barbarian land where thousands of children were being allowed to starve...
Kosters jokes that wage-price controls must be working, and working evenhanded, because "business is complaining that it cannot survive on recession profits and labor says it is being forced to swallow inflation-when the figures show that real wages and profits are both up." The major flaw is that...
This apparently indicated that Nixon was being frustrated by lower officials at the State and Defense departments who wanted a more evenhanded approach. The secret minutes later reported: "Dr. Kissinger said that whoever is putting out background information is provoking presidential wrath. The President is under the illusion that he...
Nixon and Kissinger obviously also believed that the Soviet Union, which signed a friendship treaty with India last August, was well entrenched in New Delhi; an evenhanded policy not tilted toward Pakistan would not have changed the basic fact of Soviet arms aid to India. But a pro-Indian policy...
KENT STATE, WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY, by James Michener. An evenhanded account of what really led up to those shots heard round the world.