Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ineptly Handled. But what if the Diem government did not start shaping up according to specifications? Would the U.S. start withdrawing aid that has so far amounted to almost $3 billion, cost more than 100 American lives, and presently requires the presence in South Viet Nam of some 15,000 U.S. military and civilian "advisers"? Not a bit of it, said Kennedy. "I don't agree with those who say we should withdraw. That'd be a great mistake...
This treaty protects our rights in the future, be amended without the consent of the United States, and any party to the treaty has the right to withdraw upon three months' notice...
...troop thin-out in Central Europe. The U.S. points out that Soviet soldiers would withdraw only a few hundred miles to their own territory while U.S. infantry would, in effect, have to be pulled back clear across the Atlantic. If the U.S. were to consider this idea at all, it would insist on compensation for the Soviet tactical advantage: the U.S. would want three or four Russian soldiers withdrawn for every...
When a big male starts his ritual hooting, females withdraw to a safe distance; infants flee. Schaller is sure that the performance is mainly a way to relieve emotional tension. Humans, he reminds his readers, have similar rites. Females and infants usually know enough to take cover when an emotionally aroused male starts kicking the furniture, slamming doors or heaving the family crockery...
...wages to the national minimum scale of $1.15 an hour. The foremen were widely believed. Management also persuaded a great many Negroes to vote against the union by arguing that if the "radical" segment of the colored community came to power Chestertown's white leaders would get angry, and withdraw from Negroes such benefits as they have been granted...