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...Nixon is also under counterpressure from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. commander in South Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams. The President originally planned to announce a reduction of 50,000 over the next four months, then a drawdown of 100,000 within the following four months. The Joint Chiefs, fearful of Communist moves across the Viet Nam borders, pleaded first that no announcement of any kind be made for 100 days, or if that were not possible, for at least another 60 days. Nixon heard the chiefs out at a luncheon meeting in the Pentagon. Then, only...
...mistake by his opponents while apparently not ruffling the Russians at all. The Soviets appear eager for better relations, and the prospects for a slowdown in the arms race look better than they have in years. Last week, in what may be the beginning of a worldwide drawdown, the President announced that 14,900 troops will be brought home from various stations abroad...
...alliance." That was not the mood in Brussels. In the interim between the semiannual sessions, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia had shattered all illusions of an imminent accommodation with the Russians. Gone were the pleasant prospects of further military cutbacks in the budgets of member countries or of a drawdown in force levels. In the wastebasket were the blueprints for converting NATO into a nonmilitary instrument of East-West bridge building. The situation that now faced the alliance was bluntly put by NATO Supreme Commander Lyman Lemnitzer, who had doubted détente and disapproved of the military dilution...
McNamara estimates that fully half a million North Vietnamese have had to be mobilized to repair bombing damage. Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, commander of all Pacific forces, testified before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee's hearings on the air war that the "drawdown on farm labor has reduced food production, and large amounts of food now have to be imported." All told, he said, about half of the North's war-supporting industry has been destroyed or disrupted...
Belated Adjustment. The drawdown, resolved during seven months of talks among Britain, West Germany and the U.S., calls for redeployment to the U.S. of two infantry brigades and their support forces (28,000 men), plus four Air Force squadrons (7,000 men and some 100 fighter aircraft-mostly supersonic F-4 Phantoms); they will remain on instant alert for return to West Germany within two weeks in the event of a Soviet attack. Britain negotiated a 10% reduction of its 55,000-man Army of the Rhine, long a drain on Whitehall's sterling reserves. At the same time...