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...Vietnam by smoothing out the rough edges of the war and trying to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam to 200,000 men or even fewer. The military command in Vietnam may be able to substitute even heavier air strikes for the costly ground operations that have sent so many young men back to the United States in wooden boxes. At home, non-Vietnam military spending...
...Nixon's approach is his ability to prove that the Cambodian incursion has been a tangible success. There was evidence that the operation was indeed proving useful in purely military terms. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird pressed his commanders in Viet Nam about the possibility of accelerating U.S. troop withdrawals. At the same time, Administration loyalists in the Senate conducted an effective stalling action against a cutoff of funds for any future U.S. operations in Cambodia after June 30. Often speaking to a nearly empty chamber, Republican Senators prevented any substantive vote. An innocuous change in the wording...
Double Duty. In the past the Soviets have been unresponsive to Western suggestions of mutual reductions because their troops in Eastern Europe perform double duty-providing a forward defense for the motherland and enforcing allegiance to Moscow. This time, however, many NATO ministers were hopeful that the Soviets would be less hostile to what the alliance's planners unpronounceably call MBFR (for mutual balanced force reductions). Reason: the ministers thought that the Soviets might show themselves receptive in order to ensure the participation of NATO countries in a pet Soviet project, the European Security Conference. The Soviet goal...
...herbicides have saved many, many lives," says a Pentagon official. Defoliation removes the thick canopy of Viet Nam's jungle and thus exposes enemy troop movements. Sprayed along roadsides and waterways, defoliants reduce the possibility of ambushes. Treatment of farm land in certain areas denies the enemy food...
...Hatfield, co-sponsor of the measure, explained that the bill would induce troop withdrawal by cutting off Congressional expropriations for military operations that extend beyond the required deadlines...