Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second piece on the program, the Bartok Divertimento for String Orchestra was extremely well done. This three movement piece is highly symmetrical, very mature Bartok, composed in 1939. It's movements, Allegro non troop, Molto adagio, and adagio assai. are quite transparent, the first a rough sonata form, the second consisting of three figures, the first identical to the last, and the third a rondo. The amazing virtuosity of the violin sections was made abundantly clear in this work, especially in the third movement...
What the President regards as successes, students often regard very differently. Reducing the troop level in Viet Nam by sometime in 1971 to something over 200,000 men seems to many in government a formidable achievement. The President so proclaims it. Yet to the young, who face the draft and think on the time scale of youth, these withdrawals seem wholly inadequate. They are not seeking to avoid personal danger. Rather, they abhor personal involvement in a war they perceive as "immoral...
...part of the reduction will be made in overseas garrisons-and not just those in Viet Nam. Thus the Pentagon announced last month that the 62,000-man American force in South Korea would be cut by nearly one-third. Last week plans were announced to reduce the U.S. troop level in the Philippines from 24,000 to about 18,400 possibly by next July...
Pacific Power. If Thieu was reassured, other Asian leaders were growing increasingly apprehensive over U.S. intentions. Both Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird have spoken of accelerated U.S. troop withdrawals from
Asia. By Oct. 15, U.S. troop strength in South Viet Nam will be down to 384,000-some 50,000 below Nixon's authorized ceiling. In addition, Laird said last week that the U.S. would reduce its forces in South Korea by 1971. A Pentagon spokesman expected this to involve one U.S. division-about 25,000 out of the 64,000 Americans there...