Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edmund Muskie called for a standstill ceasefire, followed by orderly U.S. troop withdrawal. Senator Edward Kennedy muted the tone of his earlier criticism of the war to suit the Moratorium mood; for the first time, he asked that the President announce a fixed schedule for pulling out all ground combat forces within a year and all remaining Air Force and Army personnel by the end of 1972. In Washington, former U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg came out for an immediate end to all U.S. offensive military operations, combined with a presidential statement that the U.S. will discuss at the Paris talks...
...relief workers held a silent vigil. General Creighton Abrams, asked what the Viet Nam Moratorium movement meant to him, replied: "We've got our job to do here and that's what we're doing." Sure enough, an army platoon set out from Chu Lai on combat patrol and killed two guerrillas in a firefight. But half the members of the platoon wore the black armbands...
...disengage itself with some care and dignity from the war, it would have greater freedom to assist in the economic development of what Singapore's Foreign Minister Sinnathamby Rajaratnam calls the "post-Western phase" of Asian history. While most leaders in non-Communist Asia welcome U.S. military aid to combat subversion, they also want U.S. help in building up such regional organizations as the Asian Development Bank and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. In their view, one lesson of Viet Nam is that political stability is guaranteed not solely by military might but by economic and political progress...
...interest on state and municipal bonds. He sold Nixon on the idea of a computerized job bank that would list jobs offered by employers all over the country to aid in placement of the unemployed. On the other hand, the President sent to Congress a billion-dollar program to combat hunger, despite Burns' strenuous objections that it was unnecessary and cost too much. To intimates, Burns has characterized Nixon's Urban Affairs adviser Pat Moynihan in one word: "Spender...
...aware that, contrary to the cruel myth that capitalism generally thrives on war, the Viet Nam engagement aggravates social tensions that are bad for business. They also consider that war spending causes much of the inflation that the Federal Reserve's credit re-straints are designed to a combat...