Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief tenet of the doctrine, in the words of a White House aide, is that the U.S. will "reduce our presence while maintaining our commitment." Already the American troop level in Asia has been reduced by nearly a quarter of a million men. Last week, en route to Saigon for a personal inspection of the Viet Nam war zone, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced that by midsummer U.S. fighting men will no longer seek ground combat in Viet Nam. Because they will still provide air, artillery, logistic and security support for South Viet Nam's army, American G.I.s...
...dispiriting topic of unemployment. Among the season's favorite horror stories are those of the $100,000-a-year Smith, Barney man who is now pumping gas in San Francisco, the top Nevada broker who works as a short-order cook in Reno, and the uncounted troop of Wall Street casualties who drive taxis in New York City. But there is a resilient breed of ex-brokers who have rebounded from the stock market slump by starting lucrative new careers. Though their ventures vary widely, the once-busted brokers are united on one point: even if the Dow-Jones...
...been in Cambodia now for a month, arriving when it looked as if the aid would soon be appropriated. Representing a bewildering variety of firms, he is offering a wide range of items. Among them are cement, plywood, air-conditioners, industrial chemicals, cranes, bulldozers, trucks, troop-carrying vehicles, evaporated milk, 30 ton generators capable of lighting a village, and enough canned food to feed the entire Cambodian army...
...Richard Nixon reduced the U.S. troop level in Viet Nam to 339,200, the war cooled as an issue, to be revived only in episodes like the raid on the North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp at Son Tay, which called into question the intelligence procedures of the U.S. military. Americans were much more preoccupied with a recession-cum-inflation that raised the unemployment rate to 5.8%, the highest level since 1963, and firmly resisted Nixon's best monetary and fiscal prescriptions. The consumer movement championed by Ralph Nader gathered strength, often in alliance with the year's overriding cause...
...will clearly take stronger presidential leadership to curb a growing feeling in the U.S. that Europe is fat and prosperous enough to protect itself. In the view of all Western European leaders, a swift, major, unilateral U.S. troop cutback?anything under the present 185,000 G.I.s in West Germany is often cited as the peril point?would be immensely damaging. Several Eastern European statesmen privately agree; they point out that the Russians would be far harder to cope with in the absence of U.S. forces on the Continent. "On the road toward a more stable system of security," Brandt told...