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...estimates that 50% of U.S. addicts are under 21. Nixon is also keeping an eye on the drug issue's political potential. The fallout from drug abuse in Viet Nam could continue to focus attention on the American presence there and make the war an issue even after troop levels are down to 40,000 or 50,000 next year...
THERE are still important choices to be made about Viet Nam. The U.S. is halfway out of the war, and the further troop withdrawals that the President has announced will see us two-thirds of the way out by the end of this year. But it is still far from clear just how we are going to come the rest of the way out. Can we come all the way out? When? And do we come out in ways that make it possible to live with the result...
...Executive Branch of the Government urgently needs some possibility somehow of being wrong. That is, it needs arrangements that would allow men to change their minds. In March of 1968, Lyndon Johnson finally came to a momentous shift in Viet Nam policy: the decision to level off U.S. troop strength, to stop bombing the North, to pursue negotiating possibilities more actively. In short, the beginning of deescalation. But it had taken the enemy's Tet offensive of January and February, Senator Eugene McCarthy's stunning showing in the New Hampshire primary in March, and the entrance of Robert...
STEP 1: NATO members will individually probe Warsaw Pact countries about their concepts and intentions in regard to troop reductions...
...troop-reduction talks would be the conventional-arms equivalent of the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. But they would be even more complicated. For all its complexity, SALT involves only two nations and deals with relatively few types of weapons, notably intercontinental ballistic missiles, sub-launched missiles, plane-borne H-bombs and anti-ballistic missiles. By contrast, troop reductions could directly affect as many as 20 nations and would deal with a welter of men, weapons, firepower and geographical considerations...