Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not intellectually defend his code of action, then there is no reason for him to voice his prejudiced views at one of the country's foremost academic institutions. The final article, which I read of that date, stated that Wallace had absolutely refused debate and Harvard would probably withdraw its invitation for him to speak...
...agreement called for a neutral, demilitarized zone along the disputed border, without specifying the lines to which Moroccan and Algerian troops should withdraw. The foreign ministers of the 32-nation Organization of African Unity, set up last spring at Addis Ababa, were to arbitrate the entire border issue, but their recommendations would not be binding. The Algerians later claimed that the agreement called for the Moroccans to evacuate the two small desert oases where the fighting began; the Moroccans hotly denied...
Only two days after Secretary of State Dean Rusk in Frankfurt repeated the U.S. pledge to maintain six divisions in West Germany, newspapers reported that the U.S. has "scheduled the withdrawal" of an armored cavalry regiment from Germany. Sooner or later it may indeed be withdrawn but not for the time being. Anyway, the 5,000-man regiment plus five other regiments were rushed to Germany at the height of the Berlin crisis in 1961 in order to reinforce the six U.S. divisions committed to NATO. These temporary reinforcements would all have been brought back after the crisis eased...
...could always plead for just a little more time to corral the Vietcong. The more often this plea was granted, American involvement increased, and the more difficult it became for Washington not to grant the plea the next time. The danger lay in the possibility of having finally to withdraw in great ignominy, to hang on embarrassingly and expensively, or to expand the fighting into an unwanted major...
Only the most nervous will object to the U.S.'s trimming the fat off its European forces and withdrawing men who can be replaced by technology. But the argument will continue whether it would be safe also to withdraw many combat troops-perhaps even most, as Ike is suggesting...