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Crucial Continents. Except for 100°-plus heat, Nixon's final two stops in Asia were more routine. India's Indira Gandhi was pleased with the beginning of U.S. troop withdrawals from Viet Nam, but -probably mindful of the running Indian disputes with Pakistan-was doubtful that collective security would be successful for the nations of the Asian periphery. Pakistan's Yahya Khan wanted to buy new arms from the U.S., but Nixon could only tell him that the matter was under review in Washington. The government-lining Pakistan Times rejected collective security as a trap that...
...fact, the diplomatic battle Rogers was righting is likely to become increasingly unimportant. Outside Viet Nam, where a second round of U.S. troop withdrawals already seems imminent, the American garrisons on the periphery of East Asia could be substantially reduced over the next few years. Here Nixon's goals abroad dovetail with his attempt at home to check federal spending. The Pentagon is seeking ways to reduce the overall size of the armed services. Large overseas ground forces seem the likeliest target for either disbandment or withdrawal to bases like Hawaii...
...almost everything he discussed with the leaders of Asia, President Nixon found it necessary to deal in immediacies: a shooting war, changing alliances, a U.S. troop withdrawal that has already begun. By contrast, in Rumania the President had almost no major questions of the moment on his mind. As the first U.S. chief executive to visit a Communist nation since the cold war began, Nixon last week broke diplomatic ground just by arriving in Bucharest. "We seek normal relations with all countries, regardless of their domestic systems," the President assured Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. The two leaders thus began with...
...would hope not. Politically, the South Vietnamese have got to create a government that commands the loyalty and support of the bulk of the population and galvanizes it into selfhelp. I hope that American troop withdrawals will be at such a rate as not to generate a sense of insecurity in the government of South Viet Nam. There must be sufficient time for the South Vietnamese to be trained to stand up and fight for themselves. If they can't, well. . . that's that...
...American servicemen stationed abroad, more than half (538,500) are in Viet Nam. Last week President Nixon ordered 14,900 back home from other overseas bases, or 1.5% of the total. Apart from Viet Nam, these are the heaviest troop concentrations...