Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mainland, and others who see it as the first stage of a phased withdrawal from Viet Nam. To Richard Nixon, proponents of enclave warfare were neither hawks nor doves but "turtles" who, he said last week, want to withdraw into their shells and "turn the Vietnamese people over to the Communists." Lyndon Johnson reacted even more acerbically to General Gavin's proposal: "I'm not going to have our troops return to the coast and let our marines go fishing while the Viet Cong ravage the countryside. I'm not going to hunker up and take...
Richard's great-grandson stumbled onto that, he spirited it off to Munich's Karl and Faber auction house to sell for pocket money. "Götterdämmerung!" the family muttered when they heard what Wummi was up to. When the auction house refused to withdraw the sketch, the Wagners bid it back from themselves for $26,200, and dolefully paid $5,700 in commissions to the auctioneers. Wummi got not a pfennig...
...Goldberg summarized the 14 points, the U.S. was ready for "discussions or negotiations without any prior conditions whatsoever." The first order of business of any talks: a ceasefire. America is prepared to withdraw its forces from South Viet Nam, and wants no continuing military bases there-provided that the day comes when the nation "is in a position to determine its own future without external interference." That means, says the U.S., that the South Vietnamese be free to determine their own future through democratic processes. And that reunification of the two Viet Nams be decided by the free decision...
...recent article in the Washington Post, Arthur A. Maass, professor of Government, and Joseph Cooper, assistant professor of Government, urged that Johnson "withdraw or simply ignore" unjustifiably strong objections he made to a provision in the Omnibus Rivers and Harbors...
Twenty second-year students at the Medical School have initiated a bold and exciting experiment in medical education. During the next semester, they will withdraw from day-to-day participation in laboratory and lecture work and will substitute a program of independent study conducted in small groups with cooperation of faculty advisors. Some of the groups plan to follow the normal course schedule fairly closely. But others will develop a new curriculum, hoping to eliminate the faults which they criticize in the current program...