Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...topple a government satisfactory to the majority of their 45 million fellow citizens in Metropolitan France. But as last week wore on, metropolitan Frenchmen came to realize that it was not the insurgent settlers they had to fear; it was the French army, which stood revealed as neither a neutral witness nor an unwilling accomplice, but as the active and continuing patron of the settlers' revolt. "The army," lamented Paris' Les Echos, "has become the first party in France...
...less than a month since a pro-Western military junta had taken over unstable little Laos, only to be dismissed in a hurry when the U.S. and the U.N. decided that despite Communist threats from neighboring North Viet Nam, the world would be safer if Laos stayed neutral (TIME, Jan. 18). What about the army now, someone asked the brothers Abhay. It was the younger brother who answered. "The army must serve," he said grandly. "That is its basic and only role...
Open to Offers. Nasser is being insistently neutral these days, and no longer shows a pattern of antagonism for the West. Leaning away from the Communists because they back his rival Kassem in Iraq, he makes it clear that he has signed with the Russians to build only the Aswan project's first stage (coffer dams and a diversion canal). Concerning the project's more ambitious second and third stages (building the nearly three-mile-long, half-mile-thick dam itself and its power plants), Public Works Minister Mousa Arafa says: "As a neutral country, we will take...