Word: midways
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...take umbrage with your interpretation of conditions at Midway [June 6]. True, the accommodations might not please the jet set, but heads of state will be satisfied with good, middle-class American accommodations. Some of the reporters may have to sleep in barracks, but if it's good enough for the Navy . . . Gooney birds are a problem to the planes but a joy to normal human beings. They are beautiful and unafraid, good no-nonsense parents, and they offer lessons in tenacity and calm that some people of our country might well copy...
WHEN the President's Midway announcement crackled over transistor radios tuned to the Armed Forces Viet Nam Network last week, few G.I.s even paused in their tasks to listen to it. Rumors of troop withdrawals had been making the rounds in the war zone since peace talks got under way in Paris a year ago; when nothing happened, the results were skepticism and indifference. Then word reached the men of the U.S. 9th Infantry and 3rd Marine Divisions that some of them would be among the first 25,000 to be replaced by Vietnamese troops. Green second lieutenants and combat...
...concept for disengaging the U.S. from the war. It is more than a vision, but less than a blueprint. It is flexible, ready to be modified with the shift of events. What Nixon does next depends largely on the Communist response to his announcement last week at Midway. While there are perils m the choice he made, it may prove to be a significant step toward ending the longest war in American history
...proposed that he announce withdrawal of as many as 70,000 troops, but with characteristic caution Nixon chose a minimum opening figure of 25,000 (see box, page 18). The number may nonetheless reach 70,000 by the end of this year. Nixon was careful to speak at Midway of their "replacement" by South Vietnamese forces. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird added to the lexicon by christening the plan "Project Vietnamization." By whatever name, Nixon's move was a guarded gamble for peace in South Viet...
...White House now suggests, Hanoi's inquiries are intimations of hard bargaining to come, it is doubly vital for Washington and Saigon to show a common front. On the surface at least, Midway was just such a display...