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Army troops were momentarily deployed in the George Washington area at about 10 a.m., but were withdrawn when they began fraternizing with demonstrators and student bystanders...
Unqualified Success. Nixon announced a small increase of the troops to be withdrawn between May 1 and Dec. 1: from 12,500 to 14,300 each month. The timing will allow him to assess the stability of the Thieu government in the October elections and the capability of the Communists to renew offensives in the autumn-winter dry season. If extended, that rate would reduce U.S. involvement to 25,000 troops by Election Day and sharply reduce the cost of the war, though there would still be considerable expenditures (see following story). Nixon's reminder that he had campaigned...
President Nixon said last week that 100,000 troops will be withdrawn between May 1 and Dec. 1 as part of the Vietnamization plan. As withdrawals continue, the remaining U.S. troops around Saigon will be turned into a hard-hitting strike force, a field commander said...
...parody? Of course. But with colors reversed, a very similar scenario has been played out at New York's Whitney Museum around a show that opens this week called "Black Artists in America." Of 75 black artists chosen by Curator Robert M. Doty, 15 have withdrawn amid a gale of controversy...
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said last week that if all American troops were immediately withdrawn from Vietnam, "it would be followed by a wave of far right, irresponsible sentiment" potentially more harmful "than any of the leftwing excesses that are taking place today...