Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east in strength from Dienbienphu. The French were pulling back from their antique forts and were concentrating in mobile groups at centers like Namdinh. The French redeployment was no simple matter: Communist guerrillas had often worked so closely around the forts that full-scale offensive operations were needed to withdraw a two-platoon garrison. The day after the fanon ceremony, Cogny had to send 2,000 men, 200 vehicles and 15 tanks to rescue 110 Vietnamese infantrymen from Doaithan and Thanhne, a couple of surrounded forts less than 20 miles from Namdinh. Cabled TIME Correspondent John Mecklin, who rode with...
According to Watson, "Dave was only too glad to withdraw his protest when he understood that no special favoritism had been shown to the Green Feather group...
...presidential election polled 788,000 votes, was disqualified by the Central Election Committee because of "insufficient popular support," i.e., because he could not get 100 signers to support a registration petition for him. Many of his original petition signers had been persuaded by police to withdraw their names. ¶ Chough Pyung Ok's campaign manager was jailed in Taegu on a charge that Chough had paid his 100 registration-petition signers 600 hwan ($3.33) each for their signatures...
...seems to me completely unrealistic," he said, "for American senators to proclaim that never, never on any terms will we recognize Red China or permit her entrance into the United Nations." If we could get Red China to withdraw from Korea and permit free elections throughout North and South Korea, to cease intervening in Indochina, and to agree to the independence of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodi, "wouldn't we clearly be willing to recognize Red China and waive opposition to her admission into the United Nations?" he queried...
Last week after four months silence, Nehru's government happily announced that at last it had won a "trade pact" with Red China. The terms: India to withdraw a tiny garrison it has maintained in Tibet for years to protect Indian merchants and pilgrims; India to let Red China set up "trade missions" (with diplomatic immunity) inside India at New Delhi, Calcutta, Kalimpong; Indians to seek entry into Tibet only along six specified passes and not to seek entry at all into the "closed territory" of Sinkiang. India also for the first time recognized Tibet as an integral part...