Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Command during the years of confrontation," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "it would have been a very different Southeast Asia." The annual cost of $630 million proved too great, however, and in 1966 Harold Wilson's Labor government announced that Britain would withdraw from east of Suez. Now that the Malaysian area has been quietly stabilized, Britain will station there only what the current Conservative government of Edward Heath describes as a "modest insurance premium"-one infantry battalion and a few miscellaneous units in a symbolic ANZUK force of 7,000 men, mainly from...
...military presence in the Far East will be the first topic of discussion in Nixon's upcoming visit to China, Lin predicted. "How can you have tea and a nice chat with someone who has a gun to your head?" Lin asked. The Chinese will insist that the U.S. withdraw its forces before they will discuss trade, cultural changes, and other issues...
...million in aid to sustain the shaky government of Premier Lon Nol in Cambodia. They were also angered at the Administration's all-out and successful effort to defeat the Cooper-Church amendment, which would have forbidden any use of U.S. funds in Indochina except to withdraw U.S. troops. This lost by only three votes as White House officials threatened a Nixon veto of the whole aid bill if the restrictive amendment were included. If Nixon would do that, some Senate doves asked, how badly did he really want foreign...
...many Americans, but none more than Richard Nixon's vocal constituents of the Republican right. Uneasy about the President's policy since his wooing of Peking began, they exploded in choleric anger as the U.N. resolution confirmed their worst fears. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona urged the U.S. to withdraw from the U.N. and expel its headquarters to "some place like Moscow or Peking." California's Governor Ronald Reagan cabled Chiang Kai-shek that the U.N. has been "reduced to the level of a kangaroo court." Said Thomas S. Winter, editor of the rightist magazine Human Events, "Conservatives are furious...
Save Our Soles. Pain and personal cost were in store for those Labor M.P.s who voted with the government. Their local parties threatened to withdraw support, and their constituents flooded them with letters and telegrams. One read...