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Bruce Allen of the Yale Strike Steering Committee said yesterday that the troop call-ups and the heavy press build-ups had kept the rally small. Demonstration organizers had originally expected between...
Hamburg Calling. A major presidential television address on Viet Nam troop reductions was put off until this week. After splashdown, Nixon lighted up a victory cigar, then declared a national day of thanksgiving and prayer. At week's end he jetted off to Houston to hand out medals to NASA ground personnel, then took Mrs. Haise, Mrs. Lovell and the parents of John Swigert for a rendezvous with the Apollo crew in Hawaii. Of the safe return, Nixon said: "There is no question in my mind that for me, personally, this is the most exciting, the most meaningful...
...decision. Taking to national radio, Premier Lon Nol announced that "the gravity of the present situation" made it necessary for Cambodia "to accept all unconditional foreign aid, wherever it may come from." Next day an itemized list of needed hardware was handed to U.S. Ambassador Lloyd Rives. Even though troop support was not even mentioned, the Nixon Administration is understandably chary of committing further military aid of any kind to Southeast Asia. For one thing, the President is scheduled to appear on nationwide television this week to announce a new cut in the U.S. forces, now down...
With the new cutback announcement, the authorized U. S. troop ceiling in South Vietnam by May 1971 will be 284,000 compared with a peak of 549,000 in early...
Richard Nixon is now President and he has promised to end the war. Every few months, he announces troop withdrawals, but it is obvious that American soldiers will be in Vietnam for many years to come...