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What the President regards as successes, students often regard very differently. Reducing the troop level in Viet Nam by sometime in 1971 to something over 200,000 men seems to many in government a formidable achievement. The President so proclaims it. Yet to the young, who face the draft and think on the time scale of youth, these withdrawals seem wholly inadequate. They are not seeking to avoid personal danger. Rather, they abhor personal involvement in a war they perceive as "immoral...
Pacific Power. If Thieu was reassured, other Asian leaders were growing increasingly apprehensive over U.S. intentions. Both Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird have spoken of accelerated U.S. troop withdrawals from
Asia. By Oct. 15, U.S. troop strength in South Viet Nam will be down to 384,000-some 50,000 below Nixon's authorized ceiling. In addition, Laird said last week that the U.S. would reduce its forces in South Korea by 1971. A Pentagon spokesman expected this to involve one U.S. division-about 25,000 out of the 64,000 Americans there...
...favorable report failed to have its intended effect on the Senate debate over whether the President could use federal funds to finance future U.S. troop movements in Cambodia or to support foreign troops in defending the present Cambodia government against the Communists. The first critical vote on such restrictions, embodied in the Cooper-Church amendment to a military funding bill, came on a pro-Nixon move by West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. He offered a provision that would remove any restrictions against a future move into Cambodia if the President considered it necessary for the protection...
...White Book assumes that 1) the Bundeswehr budget will remain close to $5.5 billion annually for several years, 2) troop strength will stay at the current 460,000 level, and 3) the draft will continue for the moment. From there, the report envisions far-reaching ' changes, all designed to boost morale...