Word: pullback
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...some it was an auspicious beginning. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield welcomed the pullback as the first move toward paring America's overwhelming military dominance in a self-sufficient Europe. To others, however, it was an open invitation to renewed Soviet belligerence. U.S. Army General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sharply disagreed with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's decision, arguing that "there is no military justification for any reduction of military forces in Central Europe...
...large-scale cutbacks in both NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe. It was thus no surprise that at week's end Bonn indicated that it will not help pay for the upkeep of the Rhine army-a decision that almost inevitably will bring about a major British pullback...
...former colony, now an independent Commonwealth nation, no longer has much strategic significance. Malta's value as a fixed aircraft carrier, situated in the Mediterranean 58 miles south of Sicily, has declined ever since the advent of missiles and long-range jets. As part of their general pullback, the British announced that they plan to remove fully two-thirds of their Malta garrison -or about 2,900 troops-by 1971. Shocked at this desertion, the Maltese argued that the loss of their chief source of income would bring economic ruin, boosting unemployment by nearly 20%. Striking back with fury...
...Leader Arthur Calwell, has focused the country's attention on the key question of Australia's participation in Viet Nam. Holt, 58, has committed Australian draftees to the war and Australian prestige to the containment of Asian Communism. Calwell, 70, demands an end to the draft, a pullback from Viet Nam and the votes of "600,000 Australian mothers whose boys could die or be wounded in the long, cruel, dirty...
...particularly in foreign nations, where the idea of car rentals has caught on fast. The tight money market has put a damper on the company, forced it, in Greenebaum's words, to "pull back on some experimental work we've been doing in developing new markets." One pullback, for the time being: a market test in which Hertz had been making extra sports cars available to see how eagerly drivers with more funds and free time would rent them. Moreover, hard-striving Avis last spring pulled a march on its bigger competitor by accepting a takeover offer from...