Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States -losing faith in our word, losing faith in our agreements with them, yes, I think the first one to go could vitally affect the national security of the United States," he insisted. He also warned against a "new isolationism" among Americans. "We are counseled to withdraw from the world and go it alone," he said. "I have heard that song before. I am not going to dance...
Doom Prophecies. There were other events to support the alarms of the Ford Administration. Thailand suggested that it might order the U.S. to stop using that nation's airfields for munitions flights to Cambodia and to withdraw all military missions in Thailand within a year. In Western Europe, where U.S. strategic interests are far greater, the government of Portugal turned more leftward, possibly jeopardizing the future of U.S. bases in the Azores and Portugal's commitments to NATO...
...Saigon editor, once sympathetic to Thieu, had a plausible explanation for all the unfounded stories circulating about the elusive and enigmatic South Vietnamese President. "As the West has left Thieu," the editor said, "Thieu has increasingly abandoned the West to withdraw into a historical autocracy. He sees fewer and fewer people, trusts fewer advisers, believes fewer friends. He has come to rule as if government is more a personal affair between himself and his God than between himself and his people...
Until 1969, if the Administrative Board kicked you out of Harvard or Radcliffe college you were out for keeps: people who were required to withdraw for disciplinary reasons--plagarism, say--had no appeal mechanism...
...deputy director of AID's Colombian mission. In both areas, he channeled funds and manipulated economic policy. Once in Colombia, when the mission felt that the government was not making enough of a commitment with its own pesos to the progress of education in the country, it threatened to withdraw all U.S. assistance. The Colombian government shelled...