Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Everywhere that Bobby went, the politicos listened attentively and yielded to his hard sell. But just to be sure, Bobby promised to send in a neutral nonresident coordinator to keep him posted...
...policy but more by instinct, the powers will confine their fighting to "neutral" areas as long as they can. I suspect the "neutrals" realize this and know that there may not be much they can do to prevent it. But they don't have to like...
...China without the arms and planes that they had sought to carry on the fight. (The failure might have served them better than success, for the spectacle of the F.I.N. equipped with squadrons of Communist MIGs would have alarmed many of their foreign sympathizers, lost them much of the neutral and Western support they have managed to win.) Last week, as F.I.N. leaders gathered at the Tunis villa of "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, emissaries from the pro-rebel governments of Morocco and Tunisia turned up to urge them to fly to Paris and negotiate with De'Gaulle. The rebels, tattered...
...bickering in mutual hostility. Sly Patrice Lumumba was given his chance to form a coalition but failed. At week's end, the Belgian authorities turned to the mercurial Kasavubu. Even if he succeeded, he was given little chance of survival for long with Lumumba in opposition. Said a neutral diplomat in Leopoldville gloomily: "I have an uneasy feeling this place is tottering on the brink of disaster...
...real villains of the novel are the unscrupulous distillers-who make cheap whisky by adding prune juice to grain neutral spirits-and the temperance wowsers. The author writes of these malefactors with great eloquence and contempt, accusing the former of betraying mankind for profit and the latter of sexual irregularities...