Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They argue that for all the Allied success in search-and-kill forays against the Communists, victories over the enemy's main-force military units are like pushing water up the side of a bowl. The moment the mailed fist of U.S. power is withdrawn to search out the enemy elsewhere, the water, meaning the Red control of the countryside, runs back. Pacification efforts have largely failed in rural areas because there are not enough Allied troops to leave behind to provide a permanent shield behind which civilian teams can reclaim the peasants for the government. Even should negotiations...
...stand up to the pressure. The Times attacked the Diem Government directly in its editorials and inferentially in its news reports. President Kennedy became sensitive to the charge of supporting a 'Catholic' government in a 'Buddhist' country. In the fall of 1963 American support was withdrawn from President Diem, and the elected constitutional government of Vietnam was overthrown...
Hillier, too, has his private Gethsemane. A nominal Catholic, like the scientist, he plays the espionage game as a man who has withdrawn from both sides-a disillusioned and cynical neutralist, proud of his prowess in bed and at table. Aboard a ship bearing him to a Russian Black Sea port, Hillier gorges himself at both. In a stateroom, he literally tangles with an extraordinarily supple Indian girl who is an expert at the extracurricular forms to which the Kama Sutra is only a primer. In the dining room, an eating contest with another passenger becomes the most hilarious...
Still, the government was exerting its influence to ensure a heavy vote: most of the South Vietnamese army was withdrawn from combat and sent to supervise the vote. Vietnamese villagers were led to believe that if they did not vote, they might incur the wrath of district and provincial officials; government pressure was at least as powerful as Communist threats. Said one observer: "There was a general feeling that if they didn't vote, it would hurt them later." It would, but in more subtle ways than government reprisals...
...time last week's party caucus began, all other candidates had quietly withdrawn and Vorster was elected Prime Minister by acclamation. "God has put the right man in the right place at the right time," said his brother...