Word: pullouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...includes 6,700 tanks and 365,000 troops. Moreover, the outfit involved in last week's withdrawal, the Sixth Guards Tank Division, is rated by the Pentagon as the least capable of all the Soviet units in the Warsaw Pact countries. Essentially, say U.S. analysts, the much ballyhooed pullout is "strictly show business...
...pullout of British troops: If the British army withdrew precipitately it would give rise to a higher level of violence. If the I.R.A. were freed of the British army, they would certainly step up their activities, and it is well known that the paramilitary Unionists are very well armed. It could be tantamount to a civil...
Though many U.S. companies have in fact been quietly cutting back their European operations for some years, the specter of a wholesale pullout was not raised until last summer. Then, Chrysler Corp. abruptly announced that it was selling its European business to France's Peugeot-Citroën for $430 million in cash and stock in the French company. Since then, alarmist charges have regularly bobbed up in Europe's press. "The American multinationals are deserting," warns a French economic weekly. "U.S. business is at ebb tide," declares a Belgian magazine...
Indeed, the Chrysler pullout has been followed by a tattoo of smaller but no-less-widely reported U.S. retrenchments. Two weeks ago, employees at an RCA semiconductor plant employing 438 workers near Liêge, Belgium, began picketing with placards attacking the company-not for being part of the American challenge but for deciding to leave. Faced with rising costs, RCA decided to shut down the plant because it was not competitive with the company's other semiconductor plants, including one in Malaysia. B.F. Goodrich, struggling for profits in an overcrowded tire market, closed a West German plant...
...might again start talking. Another factor is that keeping the G.I.s in South Korea might be popular. A poll last year by Potomac Associates, a Washington think tank, found that by 52% to 35%, Americans favored maintaining ground forces in South Korea. There also is considerable opposition to the pullout in Congress, where funds required for the withdrawal could be blocked. Warned Sam Nunn: "We haven't made any legislative threat, but I don't foreclose that possibility...