Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When his commander ordered his decimated squadron to withdraw from the Battle of Copenhagen, Admiral Nelson clapped a telescope to his blind eye, exclaiming: "I really do not see the signal!" He ended, of course, by winning the battle. His namesake, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, can also affect a blind eye when he chooses, and so far it has served him well...
...military power in Viet Nam has convinced Red China's leaders that they face a "long-drawn-out war." Indeed, said Halperin, Peking has now "urged on the Viet Cong the need to adopt a strategy of survival until the American invaders tire of the war and withdraw." China's leaders, he told the committee, are well aware that a U.S. nuclear attack would devastate their "modernized sector" and are determined not to provoke...
...described the Chinese plan for victory in Vietnam as one of "survival until the American invaders tire of the war and withdraw from the country...
...NATO command and the presence on French soil of NATO men and matériel. France would have been happy to negotiate reforms, but hélas, wrote De Gaulle, the other NATO countries were "all partisans of the maintenance of the status quo." Therefore France would soon unilaterally withdraw its own remaining forces from NATO commands. And NATO, in turn, would be required "to transfer out of French territory...
...Brown stepped into the dispute and won an agreement from the publishers to extend the contract to three years, and pay a $6 wage increase the third year. But when Brown took the proposal to the local, it was flatly rejected. For their part, the publishers are reluctant to withdraw their offer, since it has already been accepted by several of the unions...