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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eventually, the Vietnamese forces are scheduled to guard their own frontiers and U.S. troops should be able to withdraw gradually. Westmoreland has set 1969 for the start of a phaseout...
...question of terms has lately achieved a new importance. The Viet Cong, speaking through Russian and Rumanian diplomats, have communicated to the West what seem to be hints that they might be willing to negotiate. Captured Communist documents in Viet Nam tend to suggest the same possibility. Negotiations usually start when one side demonstrates clear military or political superiority and the other side seeks to protect what it still has. The Communists are hurting badly in the field and at home. They are losing more than four men for every one lost by the allies-in some recent actions...
This does not necessarily mean that negotiations will come soon, or that the shooting will stop as soon as talks start. In the Korean War, the fighting continued while truce talks dragged on for two years at Panmunjom, and the U.S. suffered 62,200 casualties during the negotiations. In Viet Nam, there are four primary belligerents, and nobody can agree on who will talk about what to whom. The Viet Cong rebels say that they will talk only directly to the U.S.; the South Vietnamese leaders say that they will talk only to Ho Chi Minh; and Ho-unlike...
North Dakota, which narrowly lost to Cornell, 1-0, in the NCAA semifinals last winter, has been in the tournament from the start. The Sioux should be very rough opposition for the Crimson on opening night. B.C.'s opponent, the Colorado Tigers, should not be so tough...
...induction of persons by age group." And within the age group chosen, he cannot "effect any change in the method of determining relative order of induction." He must take the oldest first within a certain age group. This means that the President cannot simply order Selective Service to start drafting 19-year-olds first and then the 20- and 21-year-olds later. He must designate one age group -- such as 19-year-olds -- and then must draft the oldest men within that group first...