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...news broke in midweek, calling for quick action on the part of TIME'S twelve correspondents and photographers stationed in the Middle East. In Israel, Photographer David Rubinger took color pictures of Premier Golda Meir's jubilant announcement of the troop disengagement, but the event occurred too late to chance sending the film to New York by normal commercial air express. At 1 a.m., Thursday, Rubinger's wife Anni, herself a professional photographer, was dispatched as a courier, and by that afternoon she was in TIME'S Manhattan offices with the pictures...
...proved nearly disastrous when it came to dealing with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had been kept in the dark about the negotiations. In a hand-holding visit to Saigon in July 1972, Kissinger made no mention of his concessions to the Communists on troop withdrawals and the tripartite commission. He said merely that with an election coming, the Administration would have to put on a show of serious negotiating for a while, but that it would be "a different story" after a Nixon win. Implying that the U.S. position would harden again, he suggested...
...head of our party and government, we decreased the size of our army both in the Soviet Union and in the fraternal [Warsaw Pact] countries. Some people who read my memoirs may misinterpret that policy and say it was wrong for us to cut back our troop levels. I think the majority of those who might take this" view can be found among the military. However, I'm convinced we were right to do what we did. I'm still in favor of removing Soviet troops from other countries, and would fight for implementing that policy...
Sticking to the matter of our relations with the West, I'd also favor on-site inspection at all military bases, especially airfields. It's essential that airfields be open to inspection, so that neither side could concentrate troop transports for a sneak attack. We're afraid of a surprise attack by our enemies just as much as they're afraid of such an attack by us. We need a system of inspection as much as they...
...been held without trial under the Special Powers Act of 1971, even though there is strong feeling among the military that most released Proves return to terrorism. Despite the continued violence, military sources believe that the Labor government will withdraw another four army units later this year, reducing British troop strength by about 2,000, to less than...