Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabs argue, with some justification, that Israel so far has benefited most since the ceasefire. Israel has obtained the release of its P.O.W.s from Egypt (although at least 120 remain in Syria). Its troops remain in position to choke off all supplies to Egypt's encircled Third Army; Israel has refused to return to the battle lines of Oct. 22, before the Third Army was encircled. Egypt views this as a serious violation of the cease-fire and as an indication that Israel cannot be trusted to keep its word. Top Egyptian officials hope that Kissinger can help break...
...last minute, before flying home to Washington, Kissinger added a previously unannounced four-hour stopover in the South Korean capital of Seoul to his itinerary. A debate over Korean entry into the U.N. is about to begin, and China has reiterated its demand for U.S. troop withdrawal from the South. Seoul wanted some reassurance that Kissinger had not struck a secret deal in Peking for the reduction of American forces. What they heard was hardly reassuring. Kissinger told South Korean President Chung Hee Park that there will be no change in the U.S. military commitment until July 1974. But after...
...cold in the Maryland mountains when Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget, walked into Laurel Cottage at Camp David, normally the President's work retreat. On this morning Nixon was in Florida, and his troop of budget experts had moved...
...begun, the superpower saber-rattling also came to an end. One week earlier it had threatened to involve the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 18-day war between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The U.S. last week ended a worldwide military alert called to forestall apparent Soviet troop moves into Egypt; after briefly chiding the U.S. for giving in to baseless fears, Moscow then let the matter drop...
...Please imagine for a moment that your's is (merely) an institution somewhere in Latin America, and this the occasion of the receipt of a letter from the Underground. These words, written through the student newspaper, have caused some obvious response on the campus by the government police and troop movements, stepped up identity checks, the seizure of the newspaper office...