Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early June this year, a troop of plain-skirted, work-shirted college students pitched up in pecan-milling, cotton-ginning, very segregated Albany, Georgia, to make the revolution. There was a mass meeting soon after their arrival, and they were introduced to the other people as "friends who feel so deeply that segregation is a blot on our land that they have come down to help us destroy it." In the amen corner, old Mrs. Jones nodded her gray head beneath its round, straight hat, admiring, grave and grateful as if before a work of God: "Sacrificin' their summers...
...much U.S. aid was involved could expose the Kennedy administration to much unnecessary criticism. Thus when reports indicated that 75 per cent of the Indian army was stationed in the punjab on the Pakistani border, away from the Chinese front, Galbraith convinced the Indian generals that a different troop placement was in order...
Ringing in German ears were the words of a former U.S. President and leader of NATO, Dwight D. Eisenhower. "I believe the time has now come when we should start removing some of those troops," declared Ike in a Saturday Evening Post article. "One American division in Europe can 'show the flag' as definitely as several." Next came a speech by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, who forecast a "new phase" in American troop commitments abroad and "useful reductions in overseas military expenditures...
Some believe that a U.S. force re duction in Europe would improve the climate of detente with the Soviet Un ion. The Communists themselves have at times suggested various forms of a Western troop "thinout." But this is certainly not what Ike and others have in mind; a pullback offered as a concession to the Russians might be near-suicidal...
...Elusive Trip Wires. The most serious argument for a troop pullback is the "trip wire" theory, advanced by Eisenhower, among others. The notion is that if the Russians were to attack Berlin or West Germany, for example, this would lead to a nuclear war anyway; thus even a handful of U.S. soldiers on the scene would be enough to engage America and to invite immediate nuclear retribution...