Word: withdrawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, French policy's specific aim is "to break American power wherever it can." The most obvious place is Viet Nam, and in constantly calling on the U.S. to withdraw its forces from Viet Nam, De Gaulle, like some of the protesters elsewhere in the world and even the U.S., has more than merely the ideal of peace in mind. "Under the cover of anti-Viet Nam activity," says Kaplan, "it is not world peace that is being organized and restored; it is a campaign to bring about a dramatic defeat for one of the world super powers...
...Church (TIME, May 13, 1966). Although the book was later honored by the Catholic Press Association as the year's outstanding American theological work, Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio recently denounced it as "openly heretical" on at least two counts. McKenzie retorted that Lucey should either withdraw his complaints or make formal charges of heresy to Rome...
...troops for at least several years. Lately, the Communists have been fuzzing their old demand that the U.S. has to remove all its troops and dismantle its military alliance with South Viet Nam before any peace treaty is signed. At the Manila Conference of 1966, President Johnson pledged to withdraw U.S. troops within six months if "the other side withdraws its forces to the North, ceases infiltration and the level of violence thus subsides." The last phrase is enough of a hedge to provide quite a bit of leeway. The U.S. still has 50,000 troops in Korea...
McNamara. Under it, NATO will counter any Soviet attack with a three-phase graduated response that will begin with conventional weapons, step up to limited-range battlefield nuclear missiles, and progress to all-out H-bomb attack on the Soviet Union only if the Russians refuse to withdraw...
...Couve de Mur-ville sat in the political meetings and studiously read Le Monde. The French Foreign Minister's cool disdain for the proceedings was regarded by other ministers as a sign that France will exercise the option that becomes operative under the NATO charter in 1969 and withdraw from the organization entirely. De Gaulle reckons that since the U.S. will defend Europe anyway, France may as well enjoy the benefits of the alliance without having to bear any of the responsibilities...