Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...territories of Silesia and East Prussia. His sentiments were reinforced by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in testimony last week on Capitol Hill. In reply to a question by Bobby Kennedy, McNamara gave hopeful credence to a rumor that had originated in Berlin, to the effect that the Russians might withdraw five of their 20 divisions in return for a quid pro quo by the U.S. "Would we be willing to lessen our presence in Europe and perhaps make some changes in NATO?" asked Kennedy. Said McNamara: "The direct answer to your question...
...source of the overcrowding is the draft. While in the past Watson was able to estimate accurately that about 75-80 people would leave after June exams as a result of Administrative Board decisions, this year there were only 30. Usually, about 70 other people chose to withdraw from the College over the summer, but this year there were only a handful...
Sudden Passivity. The red carpet soon ran out when the march switched off Highway 51 into the Delta, where Negroes often outnumber white residents. Governor Johnson lost some of his own cool and decided to withdraw more than half of the protecting state convoy. In Greenwood police at first refused to let the marchers pitch their tents on school property, arresting three, including S.N.C.C. Leader Stokely Carmichael, when they tried. Most militant of all civil rights leaders, Carmichael, free on bond, shouted his anger: "We want black power! Every courthouse in Mississippi ought to be burned down...
...divided his critics. To the left he offered the assurance that "there is no question of our sending troops to Viet Nam," adding that if the U.S. bombed civilian population centers in North Viet Nam, Britain would disavow its support. On the other hand, he said, Britain would not withdraw from Asia and leave it "to the Americans and Chinese, eyeball to eyeball, to face this thing out." That, said Wilson, "is the surest prescription for a nuclear holocaust I could think of. 'World, go home' is not the posture for this party, and perfectionist solutions, however cathartic...
...elections this month. In the process, he won the respect and trust of both sides. "He doesn't see labels," says one Garcia-Godoy aide. "He sees people." Bunker restored U.S. prestige in the Dominican Republic-and throughout Latin America-and made it possible for the U.S. to withdraw gracefully from what a year ago struck many as one of the worst blunders in recent American foreign policy...