Word: withdraw
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Larger Gamble. Actually, anyone with calendar and pencil can calculate that the U.S., even at the present rate of withdrawal, will probably be down to a "residual" force level of about 50,000 troops by mid-1972. Nixon said for the first time last week that a Korean-type residual force will not remain in Viet Nam. The central question is when and under what conditions the U.S. will withdraw the residuals...
After police finished clearing the steps and began to withdraw at 6 p. m., about 250 spectators rushed across a short expanse of driveway and sat down on the steps...
TROOPS IN EUROPE. A year ago Muskie backed a plan to withdraw American troops from Europe; after a trip there in January, he confessed that he was "rethinking" his position. While Muskie has not changed his stand, he is looking it over in the light of his conversations with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt -who argues that a U.S. pullout would weaken his Ostpolitik. A fiipflop? Perhaps, or perhaps only a legitimate reconsideration prompted by an altered situation...
...Israel did offer, in return for an end of belligerency, to pull back its troops from the Bar-Lev line on the canal's east bank. The Israelis did not specify how far back they were prepared to withdraw, but one unofficial suggestion was to a point, about ten miles from Suez, that would allow observation and artillery coverage of the canal to thwart any troop crossing. Under these conditions, the Israelis could easily cope with an Egyptian landing, but they would face a far more dangerous situation if a Soviet contingent crossed the canal. Direct Soviet intervention...
Even so doughty an activist as Miss Luscomb has to say no once in a while though. Soon she plans to withdraw temporarily from the commune and retire, as she does each summer, to the solitude of her one-room cabin in the New Hampshire woods. There she can light her kerosene lamp, read the Guardian and her books about Karl Marx, and look across her vegetable garden to nearby Mount Chocorua-a 3,475-ft. peak she scaled four years...