Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Common Vocabulary. To get talks about force reduction under way, the NATO allies will eventually have to cope with other, equally labyrinthine problems. What, for instance, is meant by balanced? Since U.S. forces must pull back all the way across the Atlantic while Soviet troops need withdraw only to the Russian border, would balance mean withdrawing three Russians for every American, or three for two? NATO must also consider that its weakness in conventional forces is no longer made up by overwhelming U.S. nuclear superiority. While the Warsaw Pact nations have only a slight advantage in actual manpower in Northern...
...that, as in the case of diplomatic recognition, "the negotiation and announcement is one matter and the final appearance [of Peking's men] is still another. Our position is that as soon as a formal diplomatic representative is received by any government, we have no choice but to withdraw. We would remain, and would hope to remain, if the other side doesn't show up." Taipei, however, may not even have a choice. The question before the U.N. has always been who should represent China, rather than whether either or both regimes should be admitted or expelled...
Benoit provides a provocative but mysterious answer: ". . . Vietnam hostilities will effectively end, probably without a peace treaty by 1973, through a Hanoi decision to withdraw, and by the re-civilianization of the Viet Cong and transition to a low level insurgency-thus providing the Republic of Vietnam with a respite of uncertain duration...
...chairman Donald G. Anderson said last night that if the Committee had reached its decisions before exams began, it would have required Soloway, Pennington, Bagot and Harrison to withdraw immediately...
Kouvlackas had to withdraw his nomination because his professional team would not permit the time commitment. Munro also wished to keep Getchell as freshman coach, a position in which he has trained many outstanding varsity players...