Word: servicemen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...promise. Concerning another pledge, Carter has not decided whether to broaden the blanket pardon that he promised to give during his first week in office to the 4,500 draft evaders of the Viet Nam War era. Carter is considering also pardoning 5,000 deserters and 85,000 former servicemen who went AWOL during the same period...
...Nixon said we couldn't have amnesty because it would make a mockery of all those killed in Vietnam," Simon said. "That made many parents of killed servicemen very angry. We've organized and have received significant support...
...making the military more efficient, Ford cited the calculations of former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, one of the experts who briefed Carter before the debate. According to Ford, Schlesinger reported in 1975 that reducing the budget by even $3 billion to $5 billion would require discharging 250,000 servicemen and 100,000 civilian employees, closing 20 military bases, and reducing military research and development and the procurement of new airplanes and ships. But Schlesinger later told TIME that the figures were intended to show the effects of a $10 billion...
Ford also scored political points as he directed U.N. Ambassador William Scranton to cast a U.N. veto of Viet Nam's attempts to join the United Nations, mainly because it has failed to supply complete information on U.S. servicemen still missing in Southeast Asia. (Carter said he wholeheartedly favored the veto on the same grounds.) Apparently because of the likely veto, the Security Council postponed action on Viet Nam until after the U.S. election...
...latest in a continuing series of foreign policy blunders- accepting the propaganda "apology" of the North Koreans in exchange for the lives of two U.S. servicemen [Aug. 30]-demonstrates again the "gutless" approach of the Ford-Kissinger regime in dealing with puppet dictatorships...