Word: shored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True, it might be useful for the U.S. to delay its departure, or make it gradual, even if at the end of two or three years the Saigon government were to fall, because the delay would cushion the blow to U.S. prestige and would give the U.S. time to shore up its positions elsewhere. But that advantage is not worth the cost?in lives, in money, and in domestic discord. Bitterness at home is likely to grow so severe, if the war is continued even at a relatively low level, that the U.S. system itself is likely to be seriously...
...President should be speeded up. But they would probably have to be spread over two years, with some U.S. logistical support perhaps continuing longer, during which time 1) the Saigon government could be given a chance, however slim, of standing alone, and 2) the U.S. could shore up positions elsewhere in Asia, mostly through economic and diplomatic efforts. This would in fact mean that the U.S. would pull out by a certain time, regardless of the chances of the Saigon regime to survive?although the U.S. would not say so officially...
...careful U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam might well stimulate Asian nations to take some belated measures to shore up their own defenses. Because of Britain's announcement that it would withdraw most of its forces from Southeast Asia in 1971, Singapore and Malaysia were inspired to end their political feuding and cooperate on joint air defense. Similarly, Malaysia and Indonesia, which almost came to war over territory in Borneo, have combined their forces to fight Communist insurgents in that same area. The Malaysians are also working with the Thais to root out the terrorists on both sides of their common...
Nervously, the little band of rescuers stared toward the dark shore from their boat, anchored off the bleak, remote Greek isle of Amorgos. Finally, they spotted the faint beam of a flashlight. By walkie-talkie, they confirmed that their man was ready to be picked up. Two crewmen hopped into a rubber dinghy and paddled to the beach. Twenty minutes later, they were back with a passenger: George Mylonas, 50, Greece's former Under Secretary for Education, who had been exiled to the island 14 months earlier by the military junta as a "threat to public security...
...group talked loudly about their plans to visit the Panayia Khoroviotissa, a monastery which gave them their only excuse for visiting the island. On the route to the monastery, they hid a walkie-talkie for Mylonas and returned to their boat. That night -after the quick trip back to shore in the rubber dinghy-they sailed away with their extra passenger...