Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...more ambitious measure, drafted by Democrat George McGovern and Republican Mark Hatfield, would set a time limit on U.S. combat in South Viet Nam. As an amendment to the military procurement authorization bill, the McGovern-Hatfield scheme would prevent the expenditure of any funds for U.S. military forces in Viet Nam after Dec. 31, except for one purpose: the "safe and systematic withdrawal" of remaining American units. Money would be cut off altogether after June 30, 1971, though continued aid to the South Vietnamese would be permitted. McGovern-Hatfield would also eliminate support for operations in Cambodia 30 days after...
...Korea and Johnson in the Dominican Republic. Congress has retained the final word as to the size and weaponry of the military establishment, thereby exercising an indirect check on how and where they could be used. Last year Congress went further by barring the introduction of U.S. ground-combat units in Laos and Thailand. Rather than object, the White House said that the restriction was in keeping with Administration policy...
...many reports. No actual visual sightings." Washington insisted that it had independent confirmation of the attack, but it was a skinny reed on which Lyndon Johnson based the first U.S. air strikes against North Viet Nam and his successful request to Congress for carte blanche to send U.S. combat troops into South Viet...
...that, Nixon meant buying time for Vietnamization to prove a success, a goal that becomes especially important in view of his promise to pull U.S. forces out of combat entirely by July 1971. Just as the President was scaling down his rhetoric, the Cambodian operation seemed to be developing into a struggle not just for the Cambodian border sanctuaries, but for a sizable piece of the nation of 7,000,000. And South Viet Nam, which has not been notably successful in fighting its own war, seemed determined to play the lead role...
...most important was that the Communists seemed to be moving to link up their border sanctuaries to create an unchallenged 600-mile front opposite South Viet Nam. In the Administration's view, that would have imperiled the Vietnamization program, especially with the U.S. hoping to pull out of combat altogether little more than one year from...