Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowds efficiently. Washington's newer Metro has coped as best it could but still has too few cars to accommodate the mobs. Even before they leave the first station, trains often have standing room only. Metro also is ridden with bugs: brake defects have forced cars to be withdrawn from service, causing a shortage of rolling stock, and the automatic ticket dispensers at the stations are often out of order...
...prime topic of conversation between the two Presidents was the future of some 30,000 U.S. troops still in South Korea. Shortly after taking office, Carter announced that all American ground troops would be withdrawn over a four-to five-year period. The President's decision ran into such strong opposition from Congress, the South Koreans and the Japanese, however, that the withdrawals were halted in February, after some 3,400 troops had been sent home, largely because of a U.S. intelligence "reappraisal" indicating that the North Koreans have now acquired military superiority over the South. The study concluded...
Falk's foil is a very withdrawn Alan Arkin. The two meet because their children are getting married. Arkin-a Manhattan dentist with suburban house and wife-isn't pleased with Falk's vague description of his line of work. "Dad is always making these mysterious phone calls," his son says. Falk gets into trouble in a big international monetary scheme, and drags Arkin into a mess of chases and narrow escapes...
...date proposed by Viet Nam for peace talks with China came and went last week without any parley taking place. Hanoi claimed that as many as 10,000 Chinese troops still occupied parts of its border area, and thus refused to discuss peace terms. Peking insisted that it had withdrawn completely from Viet Nam; U.S. analysts accept that statement, but they also believe that the Chinese have slightly altered the old border for tactical military purposes-"a matter of a hundred yards here and a hundred yards there," as one official...
...muscular vigilance was puzzling, especially after Hanoi announced that it was willing to negotiate with Peking once the Chinese had completely withdrawn their forces. Moreover, there was some reason to fear that if fighting resumed in the area it might involve Laos rather than Viet Nam directly...