Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repeated anti-Communist views, declared: "May I speak only as a Christian and humbly ask the President to announce, 'In the name of God, who bade us love our neighbor with our whole heart and soul and mind, for the sake of reconciliation I shall withdraw our forces immediately from Southern Viet Nam.' " Retired Army General James M. Gavin, a former U.S. ambassador to France who early last year recommended consolidating U.S. positions in strategic enclaves in Viet Nam, last week resigned from the Massachusetts Democratic Advisory Council to protest the Administration's handling...
...Black Sea. Then, two weeks ago, just when the cast thought they had survived the worst, the country was rocked by one of the most severe earthquakes in its history. The company survived, but all are anxiously waiting the day next week when the Light Brigade will withdraw to England...
There is no generally accepted answer in U.S. law. Since 1883, when the Supreme Court ruled in Louisiana ex rel. Folsom v. New Orleans that legislatures created and therefore may withdraw or modify the right to riot relief, the question of liability has been bounced around by the states, cities and counties...
...most: retreat, leaving their dead behind. Waiting until reinforcements arrived, the Marines went back for their dead three days later. Within 600 ft. of the first ambush, the North Vietnamese attacked again, killing 15 Marines and wounding 22. But this time U.S. air and artillery forced the Communists to withdraw, and the dead were at last brought out, many piled atop tanks...
...wore on, Ky eventually realized that he was in a vulnerable position. For one thing, the generals were clearly annoyed with him for his illegal campaigning and for failing to curb Loan. Unmentioned, but certainly on the generals' minds, was Ky's broken promise that he would withdraw from the campaign if Thieu decided...