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...Vietnam because he was unconvinced that the future of South Vietnam was vital to American security. When President Johnson began to claim that that was the case, Reston was satisfied--but only briefly. By 1965 he saw that the war could not continue without a massive U.S. ground troop commitment, and he knew that although Americans were unwilling to give up the end of halting communism, they were equally unwilling to use the means of such a large commitment...
Pierce himself was a Kent State student in 1970, and was mobilized as a member of the Guard's Troop G, 107th Armed Cavalry, when Ohio governor James A. Rhodes ordered the Guard on campus...
...reluctant to disclose last week. Largely as a result of the Arab oil embargo, imports of crude into the U.S. declined by 10% from the week before, and are now running 22% behind the early autumn. Treasury Secretary George Shultz last week said that Middle East troop disengagement (see THE WORLD) would lead to a relaxation of that embargo; but he did not predict when. Saudi officials have declared that they would keep it clamped on until the Israelis agreed to a complete pullback behind 1967 borders. Simon expects that if there is a political solution to the embargo, "there...
...settlement pledged the belligerents to a "scrupulous" observance of disengagement, defined the broad perimeters of troop reduction and its timing, and emphasized that disengagement around the Suez Canal was only the first step toward a "final, just and durable peace." According to reports in Jerusalem, it allows the Egyptians to keep a token force of eight battalions, or 7,000 men and only 30 tanks, in the desert...
...means of improving his own position in the Tunisian power struggle. At week's end, evidence of political difficulties within Tunisia mounted as soldiers occupied key Tunis intersections. Premier Hedi Nouira, a rival of Masmoudi's and a foe of unification, described the troop movements as a "precaution." They were probably meant to discourage Tunisian youth, many of whom admire Gaddafi, from taking to the streets to demonstrate in favor of the merger with Libya...