Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pacific Power. If Thieu was reassured, other Asian leaders were growing increasingly apprehensive over U.S. intentions. Both Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird have spoken of accelerated U.S. troop withdrawals from
Asia. By Oct. 15, U.S. troop strength in South Viet Nam will be down to 384,000-some 50,000 below Nixon's authorized ceiling. In addition, Laird said last week that the U.S. would reduce its forces in South Korea by 1971. A Pentagon spokesman expected this to involve one U.S. division-about 25,000 out of the 64,000 Americans there...
...country. Moving westward so as to put pressure on Lon Nol not to interfere with their refuges and their supply lines, the Communists started seizing territory on the way to the Mekong River. In effect, they turned their backs on South Viet Nam; as Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird has acknowledged privately, the Communists' thinned-out ranks suddenly lowered the risk of American casualties in border raids. His clear implication was that the U.S. was not moving against any major new enemy threat, but had simply seized a golden-and perhaps temporary-opportunity to wipe out a persistent problem...
...chiefs are under attack on a third front as well. Reduction of U.S. military commitments abroad is bound to alter their policymaking role and lessen their importance. Nor is a study, now being conducted by a blue-ribbon panel appointed by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, likely to increase their significance. Surveying the operations of the entire Department of Defense, the panelists are concerned about whether the chiefs can meet almost daily on policy matters and still run their services. The panel may recommend that the chiefs be relieved of one of their jobs...
Backward Chess. When he became convinced that the debenture would fail, Saunders went again to Washington and cal.ed for a secret meeting of Government leaders. TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan reports that a powerful lineup attended: Attorney General John Mitchell, Treasury Secretary David Kennedy. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and White House Aide Peter Flanigan. By a quirk of fate, the meeting took place on May 26, the day that stock prices plunged to the year's low so far. Saunders could hardly have picked a more opportune moment to ask for a handout. "The Penn Central is in a state...