Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this, McCaw called Air Force General Curtis LeMay's office and was directed by a confused secretary to the meeting at the White House. According to Salinger, Brigadier General Chester ("Ted") Clifton, President Kennedy's military aide, escorted McCaw to a darkened room where slides of Soviet troop concentrations were being shown. When the lights were turned on, McCaw was astonished to find the President there -and the generals were even more shocked to see McCaw. To ensure security, they considered recalling him to active Air Force duty, but finally accepted his pledge of total secrecy...
...estimates that 50% of U.S. addicts are under 21. Nixon is also keeping an eye on the drug issue's political potential. The fallout from drug abuse in Viet Nam could continue to focus attention on the American presence there and make the war an issue even after troop levels are down to 40,000 or 50,000 next year...
THERE are still important choices to be made about Viet Nam. The U.S. is halfway out of the war, and the further troop withdrawals that the President has announced will see us two-thirds of the way out by the end of this year. But it is still far from clear just how we are going to come the rest of the way out. Can we come all the way out? When? And do we come out in ways that make it possible to live with the result...
Just as the first round of SALT was little more than a formal probing, so any early meetings on troop reductions will probably be concerned with working out a common vocabulary, or "dictionary," in the parlance of negotiators. Once that is done, the actual negotiations would have to encompass specific questions not only of manpower, but also weaponry, the balance of foreign and national forces and the scope of defense budgets. With luck, the first probings could begin this summer, preliminary negotiations by fall and perhaps substantive negotiations some time...
...Obviously, the thing will have to be renamed. Dropping "Mutual" could yield BALFORE, which is not ideal but has a certain statesmanlike ring. Rearranging the words to make it "Balanced and Mutual," etc., could lead to BAM, for short. One could even start talking about a proposed Treaty on Troop Reductions, or TROT, for the headline writers...