Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Successful. The exercise also had the object of reassuring South Koreans that the U.S., for all its other commitments, remains solidly behind them. President Park, who has sent some 50,000 of his best troops to South Viet Nam, feels he may have to withdraw all or part of that force if pressure from Pyongyang continues. He knows that the U.S. cannot spare more men to add to the 55,000 it already has on the ground in South Korea...
President Thieu of South Vietnam on November 20th, 1968 said in a speech which was reported in Dan Toc and several other Saigon newspapers that talking with the NLF would be like marrying a prostitute and that he would "make it impossible for the United States to withdraw any of its support." On Feb. 6 of this year, in a speech in Go Cong which was reported by Duoc Nha Nam the following day. Mr. Thieu ordered the provincial chief to "arrest and imprison all monks and priests who talk politics and arouse the population." He also added, "We could...
...sympathizers are concerned, is comparable to physical death. To prevent peace from coming, Theiu must therefore do at least two things: 1) to eliminate those Vietnamese how want peace, and 2) somehow, in his own words, as I quoted before, to "make it impossible for the United States to withdraw its support...
...figure of 33,629. With round after round of Soviet-made 122-mm. rockets crashing into cities and killing Vietnamese civilians, the Communists appeared to be violating the tacit understanding that Lyndon Johnson thought he had with Hanoi when he ordered the bombing halt: in return, the Communists would withdraw troops from the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Viet Nam, begin serious negotiations in Paris -and end the shelling of major population centers...
...entirely. Bearing an important message, Ambassador Tsarapkin helicoptered 170 miles from Bonn to Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's weekend home in Stuttgart. Over glasses of light Swabian wine, the two men chatted amiably as the Soviet diplomat explained a way out for both sides. If the West Germans would withdraw the Federal Assembly from West Berlin, the East Germans would allow West Berliners to pass through the Wall during the Easter holidays to visit relatives in East Berlin, the first such passage permitted in three years...