Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drastic revision in the traditional composition of Britain's three services. Cruelest cut of all went to the Royal Navy, which will lose all of its four carriers, now the nucleus of Britain's sea power. The army will reduce its garrisons in Malta and Cyprus, will withdraw entirely from British Guiana and Aden. The Royal Air Force's V-bombers, which now constitute Britain's nuclear strike force, will gradually be grounded...
...down has turned out to be a good deal harder. After all, Ayub's controlled press had claimed one magnificent victory after another in Kashmir. When Ayub and India's late Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri agreed in Tashkent last month to observe the original border and withdraw their troops from it, Pakistan's vitriolic Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto nearly resigned in disgust, and students demonstrated in a dozen towns. Throughout Pakistan, the feeling grew that Ayub had sold...
...committee to meet and not another." Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright protested in vain that his Foreign Relations Committee urgently needed to review President Johnson's $275 million supplemental request for economic aid to South Viet Nam. The problem could easily be resolved, Dirksen countered, by getting Mansfield to withdraw his motion to take up repeal of 14(b). "Is compulsory unionism more important than the young men who are slogging among the insects and the slime and the mud of Viet Nam?" asked Dirksen. "If Viet Nam is important, good. Then let the President come down...
...from the Birch Society; in state court, he demanded the same sum from Webster. Once the Birch Society won a court order protecting the secrecy of its membership lists, McGaw was unable to prove that Webster was the society's legal agent, and he was forced to withdraw his federal suit. When that happened, the Birch Society, which had filed a countersuit against McGaw, also called off its lawyers. Had the Birch Society gone into court as a plaintiff, it would have faced the difficult task of proving that it had suffered damages from McGaw's editorial. More...
...most important, the "enclave strategy" would dispel by its very nature the hopes of Hanoi that we will withdraw from Vietnam before ensuring a stable political solution. They may not decide to negotiate for several years, but the stability and de-escalation which the strategy would afford could provide both the Americans and Hanoi, both the NLF and Saigon, a chance to re-evaluate the realistic prospects for a coalition government in the South...