Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist Boss Leonid Brezhnev, reversing Khrushchev's policy of noninvolvement in Southeast Asia, began aiding Hanoi early in 1965, when a Viet Cong victory seemed imminent. Large-scale U.S. intervention thwarted their hopes of a quick, cheap victory and exposed Russia to the charge that it will retreat from its involvement in any war of national liberation if the stakes get too high...
...first is the Suez Canal, now blocked at both ends by scuttled Egyptian ships. Though Cairo says that they will not be removed until the Israelis retreat, the fact is that the Egyptians need the earnings of the canal ($250 million a year) as much as other nations need the passageway. Egypt's economy is a shambles, and the war has gravely worsened it. The nation has a foreign debt of more than $1 billion, an annual trade deficit of $500 million, and more than half of its cotton crop-its principal export-is mortgaged to Communist-bloc nations...
Many U.S. and Vietnamese officials feared that a showdown between the two prideful generals might split the army, which is the primary unifying force in Viet Nam. They thus hoped that one or the other would retreat from the race. But, vowed Thieu, "I do not intend to withdraw...
...west bank of the Suez Canal, Jordan broke ranks and accepted the U.N. cease-fire that Moscow had been desperately trying to arrange for three days to save the Arabs from total disaster. The Egyptians fought one final tank battle at Suez in a frantic attempt to open a retreat path for what was left of their 80,000-man ground force in Sinai; then they, too, agreed to the ceasefire. Syria joined the chorus only a few hours later...
...other nations before threatening to test the blockade. Should diplomacy or threats fail to solve the impasse, Lyndon Johnson is bound to become the target of heavy fire unless he actually does challenge Nasser. Nor would such criticism be unjustified, since failure to act would amount to a dismal retreat from a clear-cut commitment...