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Critical Year. The transfer of command and the departure of the 26th symbolize the end of the Marines' role in Viet Nam. Marine strength there, once up to 86,700, will be reduced to 42,000 when the current phase of troop withdrawals is completed on April 15, and will eventually drop to 10,000. The withdrawal also signals a new battle for the Marines, whose future role is now being re-evaluated in the light of U.S. military needs and the Corps' showing in Viet Nam. Says Corps Commandant Leonard Chapman Jr.: "1970 has become the critical...
Other factors helped crystallize their feelings. The continuing disintegration in Laos, for instance, was an object lesson in the perils of a large North Vietnamese troop presence. In addition, exploratory post-riot talks with the affronted North Vietnamese in Phnom-Penh got nowhere. The Communist diplomats brushed aside the rights or wrongs of their military presence; they were only interested in reparations and a public apology for their ruined embassies. At that point Sihanouk weighed in with a cable warning of Soviet unhappiness with the demonstrations and indicating that he had no plans to get tough with Hanoi...
...There are fears among some West Germans about what they call the Finlandization of their country. Anticipating U.S. troop withdrawals, they worry that West Germany will be left so vulnerable to Soviet pressure that the country may be decisively influenced by a desire not to offend Moscow...
...Venusberg. "We are only trying to catch up. Each of our allies has more normal relations with the East bloc than we have." Yet, as Brandt presses on with his Ostpolitik, he may indeed get far out in front of his allies. A key question is future U.S. troop strength. In his recent State of the World message, President Nixon said that U.S. forces in Europe will remain at their present level of 310,000 until mid-1971. After that date, large cuts may take place. To a limited degree, the NATO allies can take up some slack; last week...
...their private conversations, Pompidou praised Nixon's troop withdrawals from Viet Nam, but gently suggested that the pace was too slow. Before Congress, he alluded to his government's belief that the U.S. has failed to meet Hanoi halfway. "At times we have regretted its length," he said of the peace conference, "and wondered whether the paths followed have always been the speediest and surest." Aware of the Administration's reluctance to appear the loser in Viet Nam, he mentioned France's past agonies of pride over Southeast Asia and Algeria...