Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than they did even last summer when Washington was talking in terms of a pullout by the end of 1972. After Nixon's speech, South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky offered an off-the-cuff guess that all U.S. ground-combat troops could be withdrawn by the end of 1970 and the remaining support units, such as artillery batteries and helicopter crews...
...Saigon, American commanders were less optimistic. Their view was that all combat troops could be home by mid-1971, but they doubted that U.S. airpower and artillery support could be withdrawn for a long time thereafter. U.S. military men also pointed out that the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) has not yet proved itself in heavy combat. Last week, when North Vietnamese regulars inflicted heavy losses on ARVN units in a battle near Due Lap, a fortified strongpoint 131 miles northeast of Saigon, U.S. authorities hustled American correspondents, including TIME's Burton Pines, away from the scene. Conceded one American...
...Secretary John Millheim notes that his motto seems to be "Let us reason together and do it my way." As for the I.C.C.C., Mclntire's political attitudes and imperious ways have proved so embarrassing to missions that an estimated 1,900 of some 2,000 missionary members have withdrawn from the organization. Yet another Mclntire enterprise, Shelton College in Cape May, N.J., is undergoing a state challenge to its accreditation...
Meanwhile, 25 police remained on campus yesterday, guarding the construction site against any further Afro attempts to halt work on the project. The police will be withdrawn today, according to Paul Rich, director of the Office of Public Relations...
...vote was passed for adjournment before the faculty could take action on a proposal to suspend classes until police are withdrawn...