Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Behind the Vote...
...will remain behind when the first chosen units depart Viet Nam for other stations in the Pacific, or in the case of 8,000 men, for the U.S., the war goes on. To the majority, the withdrawals remain little more than a gesture. Those just beginning tours in the combat zone might hope for future troop cuts. But few look beyond the next patrol. "Man, it doesn't mean nothing," said a member of a 25th Division weapons platoon on hearing the news, and his remarks were echoed by most of the men in his unit. Some servicemen share...
...BEHIND President Richard Nixon's decision to begin troop withdrawals, there is a concept for disengaging the U.S. from the war. It is more than a vision, but less than a blueprint. It is flexible, ready to be modified with the shift of events. What Nixon does next depends largely on the Communist response to his announcement last week at Midway. While there are perils m the choice he made, it may prove to be a significant step toward ending the longest war in American history
...ARMS CONTROL. A bipartisan group of 56 Senators and Representatives urged the President to halt tests of missiles equipped with MIRVs, or Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicles. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have been testing multiple warheads, though the Russians are thought to be considerably behind. The critics argue that if the tests continue, arms-limitation negotiations will fail. The mutual threat of multiple warheads, they insist, will only com mit both sides irrevocably to anti-ballistic missile programs and to another round in the arms race...
...like you got four or five guys in the room. You know they're going to kill you. They say, 'Tony Boy wants to shoot you in the head and leave you in the street, or would you rather take this [a fatal drug], we put you behind your wheel, we don't have to embarrass your family.' That's what they should have done to Willie. Sure, that man never should have been disgraced like that." Added DeCavalcante: "It leaves a bad taste. We're out to protect people." At times...