Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This combination of events in Indochina posed a problem for the President as he worked over a decision on stage four of troop reductions in South Viet Nam. The last of the 50,000 troops of stage three are due out by April 15. That withdrawal will bring to 110,000 the total reduction of U.S. troops. So far, the pullbacks have not seriously , hurt U.S. combat effectiveness. But if Nixon goes ahead with stage four, some at the Pentagon argue, vital muscle may be cut too soon...
...Cambodia as it has not in Viet Nam. In support of this view, an estimated 50,000 demonstrators, led by Fundamentalist Preacher Carl Mclntire, last week held a "March for Victory" along Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. Stronger political forces at home, however, are pressuring Nixon to continue the troop withdrawals and avoid entanglements in Laos and Cambodia. Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, who has begun a weekly series of speeches attacking Administration policy in Viet Nam, last week accused Nixon of reluctance to respond to a French proposal for a new international conference on Indochina similar...
EVEN as the fighting in Viet Nam suddenly flared, the U.S. was completing its third-and largest-troop reduction since President Nixon took office 15 months ago. By next week some 115,500 fewer U.S. soldiers will be serving in Viet Nam than during the high point of the American commitment in early 1969, when the troop count reached 543,400. Like so much else about the Viet Nam War, the U.S. withdrawal is complex and at times confusing. On Pentagon recommendations, the military is cutting back on replacements rather than literally "bringing the boys home." Thus, to the Americans...
ABOUT the war. The Big Generals have asked for a six month moratorium on troop withdrawals. A week or two ago. the Man, the President promised that we shouldn't worry, that there will still be 225,000 troops in Vietnam by July...
...Army Game. Nixon's vinegar-and-honey approach, which combined the troop call-up and carefully applied judicial pressure with a sincere willingness to negotiate, broke the back of the strike. Though the troops did little to reduce the Post Office backlog, the presence of uniformed (but unarmed) soldiers and military vehicles on the streets of New York convinced the nation and the strikers that the President meant business. To a great extent, the use of servicemen was psychological...