Word: packs
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...soon to think about rolling back other U.S. security commitments outside Europe. If the Soviets will finally pack up and pull out of their air and naval bases in Viet Nam, why shouldn't the U.S. vacate its facilities in the Philippines? One objection is that the peoples and governments of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim want a permanent, visible American military presence in that region as a counterbalance to China and Japan. That is a bit like suggesting, as many are suddenly doing, that now more than ever the world needs NATO -- and the Warsaw Pact -- to fend...