Word: gavin
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...DISENGAGEMENT. The most extreme move would be a precipitous pullout, which few besides those on the extremist fringe see as a possible solution. A more gradual form of disengagement would be to concentrate U.S. forces in coastal enclaves, as proposed by retired Lieut. General James Gavin. In effect, the enclave solution would amount to a phased withdrawal, leaving most of South Viet Nam to the mercy of the Communists...
Self-Propelled Candidate. One prominent disengager-from Johnson as well as from Viet Nam-is retired Lieut. General James Gavin, who was U.S. Ambassador to France during the Kennedy Administration and is now trying to promote himself among G.O.P. moderates as a peace candidate. Last week in San Francisco, while conceding that Viet Nam is "the best fought and least understood war in history," he said flatly: "We shouldn't be there." Next week a draft-Gavin group will run a full-page ad in the New York Times. That may well prove the high point of his candidacy...
...Christian and humbly ask the President to announce, 'In the name of God, who bade us love our neighbor with our whole heart and soul and mind, for the sake of reconciliation I shall withdraw our forces immediately from Southern Viet Nam.' " Retired Army General James M. Gavin, a former U.S. ambassador to France who early last year recommended consolidating U.S. positions in strategic enclaves in Viet Nam, last week resigned from the Massachusetts Democratic Advisory Council to protest the Administration's handling of the war. "It is having disastrous consequences on the national economy," he said...
...Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), Millie wanders dizzily around town, avoiding the clutches of a wicked witch of a whiteslaver (Beatrice Lillie) and her gang of scrutable Orientals. In the last reel, both girls foil the villains and tie up their happiness with big pink beaux (James Fox and John Gavin...