Word: cutback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft suspension seemed only slightly more convincing. Nixon said that because of the troop cutback no new quotas would be required of local draft boards in November and December, during which 50,000 men had been scheduled to be called. The 29,000 men already set for October induction will be spaced out instead over the final three months of this year. At the same time, Nixon announced that if Congress does not act promptly on proposals for draft reform that he submitted last May, he will institute most of them by executive decree (see box, opposite page...
...that he was suspending draft calls for November and December. He said that the 29,000 already scheduled to be called in October would be spread out over the next three months. Nixon explained that the partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam was the reason for the cutback, and that in December, if all goes well, he would review the programmed January call-up for possible cuts. In overall figures, however, Nixon's announcement means only 5,600 fewer draftees in 1969 than last year...
Most of the Pentagon critics agreed that their defeat was caused by their own lack of organization and by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's self-imposed cutback of $4.1 billion. Further, Laird promised more appropriations reductions over the next three years by cutting military personnel from 3.5 to 2.6 million men. Currently the military's payroll is $41 billion annually...
...easy to justify. Now it was tricky, and he had to calculate the risk on the battlefields, the tolerance of dissent at home, and somehow strike a balance. At week's end the summer White House in San Clemente said that President Nixon would defer his decision on the cutback until he returns to Washington next month...
...reassure each side that the other was keeping its word. Beyond a mere freeze, there is at least a theoretical chance that the two adversaries could decide to cut back their arms stockpiles and actually initiate partial disarmament. TIME'S Pentagon correspondent, John Mulliken, suggests several hypothetical cutback scenarios...