Word: pullbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wisconsin, former Democratic National Committeeman David Carley is trying to overtake front-running Lieutenant Governor Patrick Lucey for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by demanding an immediate cease-fire and a U.S. pullback to coastal enclaves...
...divisions in East Germany; certainly some could be called back, but to withdraw all of them suddenly would probably cause the regime of Walter Ulbricht to collapse. Poland still has three Soviet divisions, but the Russians remain unobtrusive, and Polish Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka paranoically fears that a Russian pullback would encourage German encroachment on the Oder-Neisse line. Only Hungary's Janos Kadar could profit from the removal of the four or five Russian divisions still in his country: they serve as a constant reminder of Moscow's brutal role in repressing the 1956 Hungarian revolt. Bulgaria...
...week about the new Soviet diplomatic offensive were not the Western Europeans but rather the Eastern Europeans. The reason was not at all flattering to the Russians. The main thing that the people of the East saw in a relaxation of tensions between East and West was a mutual pullback of U.S. and Soviet troops from Central Europe that would rid their countries for the first time in 21 years of the unwanted presence of the Red army...
...long last returning to normality. Normality, of course, did not mean friendship. Not when the emotional question of Kashmir was involved. But at least the two nations, under terms of the Tashkent agreement, were talking together again-to the vast relief of both Washington and Moscow. Besides the troop pullback and civilian exchange, commercial flights between India and Pakistan have been resumed, diplomatic relations fully reestablished, some mail and telegraph services put back in operation. Last week India's turbaned Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh flew into Rawalpindi at the head of a 23-man delegation to discuss further...
...both nations, Humphrey reasserted the President's fish-or-cut-bait foreign-policy line. Further economic aid, he made clear, depends on observance of the Tashkent agreement to a cease-fire and a pullback in Kashmir. Also, the two countries must take realistic self-help measures and, in view of the shared threat of Communist China, spare the Administration gratuitous criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Finally, Humphrey intimated that some non-military assistance for South Viet Nam would not be ill-received in Washington, though this was not made a condition of continuing...