Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...managed to escape from Washington to the Southern California sun, last week was a chilly, somber time for President Richard Nixon. While the war in Viet Nam goes grimly on, it is no longer his chief preoccupation; the polls show and his Democratic opposition concedes that Vietnamization and U.S. troop withdrawals have relieved, at least for now, the political pressures of the war on the President. Instead, Nixon has turned his attention to the two questions that have cast their shadows over the politics of 1970: inflation and the quality of the American environment...
...substantial majority approve the President's plan for U.S. disengagement from Viet Nam. Support for immediate withdrawal of U.S. fighting men has dropped from 36% in October to 32% last month, while support for an accelerated troop pullout has fallen from 29% to 26%. Correspondingly, backing for the Nixon timetable of withdrawals geared to South Vietnamese ability to take over the fighting has increased. Sixty-one per cent went along with the Nixon schedule in October; 65% went along last month...
...develop community spirit." Prepared by the U.S. Command in Viet Nam for military press officers, the directive bans or substantially alters 22 terms that once were used frequently in briefings for correspondents in Saigon. Instead of "search and destroy," U.S. briefing officers should now say "search and clear." U.S. troop withdrawals are to be described as "U.S. redeployment" or "replacement by ARVN" (Army of the Republic of South Viet Nam). A Viet Cong tax collector should be called a V.C. extortionist. V.C. defectors are to be called ralliers...
...President Nixon pursued his policy of U.S. troop withdrawals and Vietnamization, the war issue was muted. He secured from the House a resolution that seemed to support his policy. He won a lottery draft system-which an earlier Congress had refused to give President Johnson-and this may further dampen war dissent. He scored victories on other security matters: authority and initial funds to deploy anti-ballistic missiles and Senate approval of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty...
...less wealthy nations increase troop contributions...