Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon apparently sails along toward a major victory as the recognized "peace candidate." One reason, of course, lies in the troop reductions that, along with a sharp decline in draft calls and casualties, have largely neutralized the antiwar movement. But there is more to the President's strength in the polls than is indicated by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's glib gibe that "the American public understands the difference between addition and subtraction." Some observers, among them Leslie Gelb, who headed the "Pentagon papers" study during the Johnson Administration, reckon that the real difficulty in sustaining protest...
Senator George McGovern's controversial plan for major American troop withdrawal in Europe would be good for the United States and not bad for the continent, a major foreign policy advisor to the Democratic nominee said at the Law School yesterday...
This tranquil atmosphere of confidence extends far beyond the capital Only a few troop carriers are seen today on the streets of Carmona, the center of the thriving North Angolan coffee industry and a prime locus of guerrilla activity since 1961 when the rebellion broke out only a few miles away...
Though Senator Humphrey expressed his approval of the Nixon Administration's troop withdrawal program in 1969, he said that his greatest opposition to President Nixon right now comes from Nixon's handling of the war in southeast Asia...
...volunteer force feasible. Even with the aid of pressure from the draft and less likelihood that enlistees will have to serve in Viet Nam, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps are failing to meet their current enlistment quotas. Nor did Nixon's emphasis on the Viet Nam troop cut take into account the massive air, naval and other support forces operating just out side South Viet Nam's borders. This manpower has been growing rather than declining, but has now leveled off at about...