Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casualties of the Viet Nam War sometimes seems to be the English language. Thus the South Vietnamese invasion into Laos has evoked some zealously euphemistic official prose. Although no newsmen were allowed to accompany the operation, it was clear that Saigon's troops were not only killing thousands of North Vietnamese soldiers but also taking devastating casualties themselves, and in some instances retreating in bloody disorder (see THE WORLD). Pentagon analysts called it "a rearguard action under medium pressure," and some Saigon briefers spoke of it as "redeployment"-a word that suggests the shuffling of papers from IN basket...
...existence of the pipeline was disclosed in Senate testimony before the Committee on November 18, 1970, by Brig. Gen. William John Evans, though the details of the diameter and length were not revealed. This pipeline would appear to have played an important part in the North Vietnamese troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, supplying an estimated 3,000 six-wheel heavy Russian trucks with fuel. The Air Force disclosed that within the last two and one-half years the portion of the trail open to trucks in the dry season has been extended from...
...Command yesterday claimed that the number of American troops in South Vietnam has reached 317,300. the lowest point since October 1966. U.S. headquarters has explained that the drop is a direct result of Nixon's plans for troop withdrawals in South Vietnam...
...first reports of public opinion were disturbing. George Gallup reported that public approval of Richard Nixon's presidency had fallen to 51%, the lowest point so far: only 19% agreed with Nixon that the Laos drive would shorten the war. Louis Harris discovered that 46% felt that U.S. troop withdrawals from Viet Nam were "too slow." No wonder, then, that when the President returned to Washington, he decided to hold a televised press conference and confine the questions to matters of foreign policy...
Nixon made his major point on the very first question. For much of the day, he said, he had been in trans-Pacific consultation with his Viet Nam commander, General Creighton Abrams, who had told him that the South Vietnamese troops had proved in Laos that they could "hack it" against "the very best units that the North Vietnamese can put into the field." Moreover, Nixon claimed, the disruption of enemy supply lines already "assures even more the success of our troop-withdrawal program." Nixon hinted that in April he may announce an acceleration of the present withdrawal pace...