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...NIXON orders all U. S. troops out of Vietnam, leaving the population of that country at 120 "gooks, none of them Communist thanks to American perseverance and technological know-how." Nixon announces that the resources saved by the unexpected withdrawal will be used to rebuild America's cities "somewhere in Alaska, where they won't get in the way of suburban life...
...opposed collectivization and supported Tito. For this behavior he was forced to acknowledge "selfcriticism" in 1949 and was relieved of his posts. He was arrested in 1951 and remained a virtual prisoner until 1956, when the party, shattered by the Poznan riots, saved itself by choosing Gomulka to rebuild Polish Communism...
Yemen. To rebuild his army, he allowed himself to become the bondsman of the Soviet Union, and he squandered Egypt's limited resources in pursuit of disastrously misguided goals...
...easier credit, will spur more building. Heller predicts an increase in housing starts to an annual rate of 1,700,000 in early 1971, up from 1,430,000 in August. Defense spending will continue to fall, and apart from the special case of steel, manufacturers will not rebuild inventories as swiftly as in past recoveries because they did not cut stockpiles much during the recent downturn...
Those arguments had more validity in the two World Wars and in the darkest days of the cold war. The U.S. emerged in 1945 as the world's strongest power, both economically and militarily. It used its economic strength magnificently to help rebuild Western Europe, and idealistically hoped to forge another superpower out of a unification of much of that continent. Soon the State Department's Dean Acheson was pushing the decision to aid Greece and Turkey against Communist subversion as part of the Truman Doctrine. U.S. failure to combat Communism there, he proclaimed, could "open three continents to Soviet...