Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hatfield, co-sponsor of the measure, explained that the bill would induce troop withdrawal by cutting off Congressional expropriations for military operations that extend beyond the required deadlines...
BOND: I would quickly end the war, simply by telling the South Vietnamese that by a certain date the last fighting man would leave the country. I would direct the Congress to extend the voting rights act of 1965 for another ten years. I'd improve the Nixon welfare plan. I would urge legislation providing full employment. I'd call a moratorium on highway construction and divert those funds into the construction of homes and school rooms...
...roots of American action in Vietnam and Cambodia are not to be found in any desire for military conquest, but rather in the government's determination to extend and perpetuate America's economic and social presence in those areas. The decisions to send troops and to escalate the conflict during the 1960's were prompted by the failure of other less drastic measures to insure continued American influence in Vietnam. Nixon's policy of phased withdrawal is in line with this one basic goal: a strategy involving negotiation and continued acts of military aggression is supposed to institute a regime...
...recent months, is once again a matter of urgent public concern. The support which Nixon mustered for his ill-defined policies of Vietnamization and phased withdrawal is now uncertain. Many Americans, not merely those on college campuses, now feel that Nixon plans not to end the war but to extend it indefinitely, over more years and more Asian nations. It remains for the anti-war movement to determine how best to turn this reawakened public concern into public action...
...anti-war movement must turn its vision away form the campus, and extend that vision to cover months and years, not days. Those who are determined to reverse America's foreign and domestic policies should do now what in the past they have often talked about but seldom tried with any constancy: organize strong and continuing anti-war support in communities throughout the nation. These local campaigns should attempt to link the war with other public concerns. pointing out, for example, that defense spending contributes to inflation. Within a framework of non-violent action. a number of local tactics...