Word: planned
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Confrontation's Test. The President penciled changes in the speech almost up to the moment when he walked into the White House theater to deliver it. He prefaced his peace plan with a defense of continued U.S. presence in South Viet Nam and a restatement of the nation's goals there. Referring to his inaugural pledge to move the nation from "an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation," the President maintained that the U.S. must demonstrate, "at the point at which confrontation is being tested," that confrontation itself is profitless. As for what the U.S. seeks...
...Ground. Though not enumerated in the speech, the proposals divided neatly into eight steps, and White House advisers immediately began billing them as an eight-point plan, thus entering Nixon in the Great Peace-Point Derby.-In the heart of his speech, the President used almost contractual prose that Lawyer Nixon knows well. As a first step, he proposed agreement on mutual U.S., allied and North Vietnamese troop withdrawals. This would be followed, gradually and each time under new agreement, by creation of an "international supervisory body" that would verify troop pullbacks, arrange a final cease-fire and oversee national...
...N.L.F. and Hanoi demand unconditional evacuation of U.S. and allied troops with international supervision of the exodus. Washington wants joint withdrawal of U.S., allied and North Vietnamese troops with outside monitoring. While the N.L.F. tacitly acknowledges the presence of North Vietnamese forces south of the DMZ, the latest Communist plan merely proposes that the matter of "Vietnamese" military forces in South Viet Nam should be negotiated "by the Vietnamese parties among themselves." The N.L.F. hinted, however, that it might be willing to ask North Vietnamese troops to withdraw from South Viet Nam if the U.S. pulls out at the same...
While groping for peace, Richard Nixon still faces the grim business of managing war. Last week he sought to humanize the machinery by which his soldiers are conscripted. "The present draft arrangements," he said in a message to Congress, "make it extremely difficult for most young people to plan intelligently as they make some of the most important decisions of their lives, decisions concerning education, career, marriage and family...
...President asked for reforms that would replace an inflexible calendar with random chance. The plan, based on a lottery principle, would start with the youngest eligible men rather than with the oldest, as at present. Men are now liable for induction between the ages of 19 and 26. The new system would reduce the seven-year twitch to one. Among men of roughly the same age, the iron rule of oldest first, even if the difference is only a few days, would be removed...