Word: pullouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ackermann's amendment to Vellucci's motion-to strike the words "as soon as is humanly possible" and demand instead a pullout by December 31-also failed...
Numbing Losses. Only three days before the final pullout from Laos began, Secretary of State William Rogers told reporters that Lam Son would continue well into April, and perhaps until the start of the rainy season around May 1. After the assault on Tchepone, it was expected that Lam Son's troops would exercise an "option" to drive to a key junction ten miles to the southeast. There they were to have sliced up Route 914, an important and still intact trail route; disrupted Base Area 611, a key enemy supply depot; and swept home via the A Shau...
...Nguyen Khang, who bosses South Viet Nam's elite Marines and holds a slight seniority edge over Lam, was so miffed when Lam was named to run the Laos operation that he retired to Saigon and turned his responsibilities over to his deputy, a colonel. During the pullout from Laos, Lam's headquarters ordered the Marines to stay behind and fight a rearguard action; when they got into trouble, Khang simply directed them, on his own authority, to come...
North Vietnamese delegate Xuan Thuy's proposal to the 95th session of the Paris peace talks modified an earlier demand for a complete American pullout by next June...
...billion-part of which would benefit NATO. Perhaps more important, he promised that the U.S. would not reduce its present 285,000-man troop level before the summer of 1972. To underscore that pledge, Secretary of State William Rogers read a message from President Nixon promising that no pullout will occur even after that date "unless there is reciprocal action from our adversaries...