Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thursday, 4:30 p. m. -Women's demonstration on Cambridge Common to demand U. S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos; and freedom for Bobby Seale, other Black Panther Party members, and all political prisoners. Sponsored by Bread and Roses...
Bruce Allen of the Yale Strike Steering Committee said yesterday that the troop call-ups and the heavy press build-ups had kept the rally small. Demonstration organizers had originally expected between...
...Cambodian army. Senator William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee sought an explanation from Secretary of State William Rogers-and then, without waiting for his promised testimony this week, ordered two staff members to go to Cambodia to investigate any U.S. involvement. Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie complained that linking troop withdrawals to events in Cambodia and Laos was to "broaden our commitment" dangerously...
Hamburg Calling. A major presidential television address on Viet Nam troop reductions was put off until this week. After splashdown, Nixon lighted up a victory cigar, then declared a national day of thanksgiving and prayer. At week's end he jetted off to Houston to hand out medals to NASA ground personnel, then took Mrs. Haise, Mrs. Lovell and the parents of John Swigert for a rendezvous with the Apollo crew in Hawaii. Of the safe return, Nixon said: "There is no question in my mind that for me, personally, this is the most exciting, the most meaningful...
...decision. Taking to national radio, Premier Lon Nol announced that "the gravity of the present situation" made it necessary for Cambodia "to accept all unconditional foreign aid, wherever it may come from." Next day an itemized list of needed hardware was handed to U.S. Ambassador Lloyd Rives. Even though troop support was not even mentioned, the Nixon Administration is understandably chary of committing further military aid of any kind to Southeast Asia. For one thing, the President is scheduled to appear on nationwide television this week to announce a new cut in the U.S. forces, now down...