Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration made it worse. It reacted in a schizophrenic mood, alternating between recrimination and caution. Behind the scenes, factions were vying to shape President Ford's public position. Officials close to Henry Kissinger felt that the Secretary of State's historic reputation was at stake and urged Ford to defend the Nixon-Kissinger Viet Nam policy that had produced the 1973 Paris accords, for which Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize. They wanted the major blame pinned on Congress for its alleged failure to live up to those accords by cutting back aid to Saigon. Others knew that the facts...
...United States should imagine that America can be safely challenged; and no allies or time-tested friends of the United States should worry or fear that our commitments to them will not be honored because of the current confusion and changing situation in Southeast Asia. We stand ready to defend ourselves and support our allies as surely as we always have...
Privately, however, Pentagon officials?including Weyand himself, according to some reports?were deeply pessimistic about South Viet Nam's ability to defend what remains of its territory. True, the government has the equivalent of seven divisions within a 50-mile radius of Saigon, including the 4,000 men of the airborne division that moved down from Danang two weeks ago; there are also some 175,000 popular-force and regional-force soldiers, but Saigon's combat-ready troops are outnumbered by the North Vietnamese forces that have been massing in the capital military region over the past several weeks. Small...
Thieu gave his officers only six hours' notice before the retreat and not even enough time to fuel vehicles. At Hué it was even worse. "It was like a yo-yo," says a U.S. expert. "First, Thieu gave the order to pull back and defend Danang. Then he countermanded it and ordered that Hué be held...
...great deal of resistance to these, both on the left, which feels that the U.S. should not "intervene" anywhere, and on the right, which is rediscovering its old opposition to foreign aid. But the U.S. cannot live in isolation. Not only must the U.S. be able to defend itself but it must have a world-or at least some regions of the world-congenial to its system and its goals...