Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...announce a firm timetable for withdrawing all troops within 18 months, a course that the Administration has rejected. The argument for a public timetable is that it would increase pressure on Saigon to take over the fighting, and on Hanoi to accept a political settlement instead of facing protracted combat with a beefed-up South Vietnamese army. Nixon, by contrast, contends that any such announcement would tie his hands and undercut his bargaining position with the enemy...
Kirk described how he had set up a privately financed state police force to combat the intrusions of organized crime. "It was worth every penny of it," he said...
...what they have been given. In an unusually frank interview with U.S. Newsmen William Tuohy and Rowland Evans, Nasser admitted last week that "we have more planes than pilots." Nor is Moscow likely to order its own military advisers to expose themselves to danger by operating complex equipment under combat conditions. The Russians themselves have already suffered in Israel's attacks; in one incident last March, a number of their men were killed in an artillery barrage that also fatally injured Egyptian Chief of Staff Abdel Monem Riad...
...riots, Marcos-the Philippines' most decorated war hero-has holed up in Malacanang as if it were the Alamo. The charming old Spanish colonial palace has become a fortress. Workmen have welded closed two of its four massive entrance gates. Armed guards patrol the Pasig riverfront; soldiers in combat dress and plainclothesmen, guns bulging under their loose-fitting barong tagalog shirts, are all over the Malacanang's banyan-shaded grounds...
...While it is claimed that all American combat troops have been withdrawn from the IV Corps in the Mekong Delta, briefing officers fail to point out that 23,000 U.S. support troops and advisers remain. That figure is only 15% less than the total estimated Communist forces in the area-hardly a level indicating substantial self-sufficiency on the part of the South Vietnamese...