Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home after being released by Arab hijackers to say that the erstwhile hostages endorsed his policy. At the Southern European headquarters of NATO in Naples, he described the alliance as "perhaps the most successful of any in the history of the world." He insisted that despite speculation about U.S. troop withdrawals from NATO forces in West Germany, the U.S. commitment to maintaining NATO's strength was as firm as ever...
...five points were: a call for a standstill cease-fire all over Indochina under international supervision; an Indochina peace conference to settle the Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian disputes: negotiations on a timetable for troop withdrawals; a political settlement reflecting the present balance of forces in South Vietnam; and the immediate release of all prisoners of war by both sides...
...declared by Congress; the state now seeks a declaration from the court that U.S. participation in the Viet Nam War is unconstitutional. If the court accepts the case, warned Justice Department attorneys last week, the Justices might conceivably be forced to set up their own military-affairs office, supervising troop withdrawals and dealing diplomatically with North Viet Nam. The court may well avoid the politically charged Massachusetts case. But clearly the Justices will be kept busy without it. Mr. Justice Blackmun, no doubt, would concur in that opinion...
...fighting, this at a time when Washington was refusing to negotiate. But, if his capacity as a prophet is unstable, his capacity as a reporter is unchallenged. Through it all, he documents the political maneuverings of the South Vietnamese generals, their struggles for power, the way the American troop buildup despoils the country, the economy, the people. At times, he seems to forget that there is a war going on at all, so deeply is he involved in watching the political maneuvering. All of his dispatches come from Saigon, away from the fighting, with the exception of two from...
...Vietnam by smoothing out the rough edges of the war and trying to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam to 200,000 men or even fewer. The military command in Vietnam may be able to substitute even heavier air strikes for the costly ground operations that have sent so many young men back to the United States in wooden boxes. At home, non-Vietnam military spending...