Word: pullback
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...last week, however, the consummate hawk was acting like a careful dove. In his speeches, Dayan was saying openly what other Israeli officials would only whisper privately: that Is rael should return to the Jarring talks in spite of the missiles. Dayan even suggested an Israeli pullback at Suez so that the canal could be opened again as a guarantee of peace...
...placing it in the hands of a semi-independent corporation. He has made Selective Service more equitable. He has reorganized the key decision-making and administrative apparatus of the White House. In foreign and military affairs, Nixon has formulated and begun to accomplish a gradual but potentially significant pullback in both commitments and forces -a more realistic alignment of policy with power. Other reforms, however, have faltered. Among them...
During the term that ended last week, the United States Supreme Court had its first new Chief Justice in 16 years. Warren Burger was chosen by President Richard Nixon in the hope that he would direct the court toward a new era of judicial restraint, a pullback from the activism and controversy of the Warren Court. The outcome was just that, but it was not really Burger's doing so much as it was the U.S. Senate's. A seat on the court remained empty for virtually the entire term, the result of the Senate's rejections...
...Life Lines. But Cambodia remained the war's focal point. Along Cambodia's eastern border, U.S. troops, working against a pullback deadline that expires in less than two weeks, continued to uncover rich veins of buried Communist supplies in the sanctuary areas. But the U.S. sweep seemed only to push the Communist forces deeper into Cambodia. Roving forces of Communist troops kept pressure on three provincial capitals, including Siem Reap. the gateway to Angkor, and Kompong Speu, only 24 miles southwest of the capital, Phnom-Penh. The widening Communist attacks spread Premier Lon Nol's forces...
...Ling says, many of his company's nine subsidiaries were hurt by un foreseen events. The economic slow down cut Braniff's passenger traffic, a rise in copper prices hurt Okonite's prof its and the pullback in defense contracts reduced the earnings of both LTV Electrosystems and LTV Ling Altec...