Word: troops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, AP-President Nixon promised the nation Monday night a Christmastime announcement of new U.S. troop withdrawals from South Vietnam, and said his current policy will bring the conflict to a conclusion no matter what happens at the negotiating table...
...President told a nationally broadcast and televised White House news conference he will have a new troop withdrawal announcement in two or three weeks, certainly by the end of December. He added the size of the pullout has not been determined...
Richard M. Neus?adt '69, a first-year Law School student-who organized the meeting-said the group thought that an organized peace campaign could "put pressure on the President to increase the pace of troop withdrawals" from Vietnam...
...pace of U.S. troop withdrawals...
...portrayal of the Communist negotiators as intransigent. He told the New York Times' Harrison Salisbury that he had repeatedly offered to meet privately with Lodge to discuss "general problems" affecting South Viet Nam. Lodge had refused, claimed Thuy, because the discussion would not be confined to mutual troop withdrawals. What else did Thuy want to talk about? Plans for a coalition government in the South-a topic Lodge obviously could not discuss unless there were a major change in Nixon's Viet Nam policy...