Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COST IN MEN. By some time in 1972, while troop levels are still up around 35,000, U.S. casualties could dip to no more than five or six men a week, predicts one high-ranking State Department official. The South Vietnamese will by then be doing almost all of the ground fighting; the Americans will be limited to defense-the kind of routine local security provided by MPs at the gates and in the watchtowers...
...slightly increased withdrawal rates announced last week by the President are maintained, U.S. troop levels will be down to 50,000 by late summer of 1972 and just over 25,000 on Election Day. After that, what U.S. military planners have in mind, starting perhaps by mid-1973, is an "Ethiopian-type mission"* of somewhere between 3,000 and 6,000 men. That would be a return to the kind of presence that the U.S. had in South Viet Nam at the beginning of the 1960s with its Military Assistance Advisory Group. Before that level is reached, there could still...
Only for an interim period, ending perhaps in 1973, will American pilots continue to fly B-52, fighter-bomber and C-130 gunship sorties over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Once these sorties cease, so will U.S. air losses. With further troop withdrawals in 1973, the U.S. may lose no more than a couple of men a month on the average, though enemy terrorists could well inflict heavy casualties in isolated attacks...
...Maine Senator rejected the administration's claim that a "right-wing reaction" and a "nightmare of recrimination" will result from the setting of a fixed date for troop withdrawal...
...Saigon, the U.S. Command announced American troops in Indochina now number 296,500, equal to the troop level four-and-a-half years ago. The peak level was 513,000 troops in April 1969. The total is due to drop...