Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chronicle of this confusion is familiar: while Ambassador Goldberg proposes that the United States would de-escalate if the North Vietnamese would do likewise, Secretary McNamara announces a significant increase in air armaments; while the President pleads for peace, the troop increases continue with no end in sight; and, most serious of all, while this country professes a desire to come to the conference table, the President tactlessly declares that the United States will never unilaterally halt the bombings of the North--thus damaging, in one brief, blunt moment the preconditions needed for negotiations...
Alvarez Kelly, like most pictures that prattle about cattle, leaves the customers feeling that they ought to raise a beef. But there is more than moo in this moovie. There is, for example, a galloping good story that describes with cheerful inaccuracy how in 1864 a troop of Confederate cavalry rustled about 2,500 steers from the Union forces and then sent them thundering through Grant's lines to the relief of Richmond. What's more, the story provides Director Edward Dmytryk with irresistible opportunities to plant a little poison ivy on the grave of Southern chivalry...
...TROOP (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). When the pilfering at Fort Courage gets out of hand, who should turn up to set things right? None other than Uncle Miltie Berle, dropping back from his Friday night slot to Sherlock around Indian-style...
...depend heavily on its Samos, Ferret, Midas and Vela systems for vital intelligence about the Soviet Union. With those satellites, the U.S. has mapped and photographed Russia's missile sites and radar installations, followed the stages of nuclear progress in Red China, watched troop movements in both countries and eavesdropped on conversations at the Russian cosmodromes...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara so far has refused to allow the Germans to back down on their agreement. His unspoken threat: if Bonn does not ease the U.S. balance of payments burden by continuing the scheduled purchases, American forces might be substantially reduced in Germany. The prospect of U.S. troop reductions is a nightmare for any West German politician, and especially for Erhard. Nothing would bolster his standing in Germany quite so much as a resounding pledge from the President that U.S. troop strength will remain close to current levels. Presumably, Erhard also wants to try again for a commitment...