Word: withdrawnness
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...vital national elan has been lost−and must be found again before the American dream may be further pursued. In fact, the slightly retreating titles of Mr. Gardner's previous books reflect the pressure of the times. From the absolute of Excellence (1961) he has strategically withdrawn to Self-Renewal (1964), No Easy Victories (1968), and now The Recovery of Confidence...
...some 5,500 G.I.s were withdrawn from operations in Cambodia, 2,000 ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops launched Operation Pacify West Two, the tenth thrust to date against Communist base areas. Elsewhere, the new war reached far beyond the sanctuaries. In the Gulf of Siam, U.S. and South Vietnamese patrol craft extended their coastal quarantine to a 70-mile stretch of the Cambodian coastline. At Neak Luong, South Vietnamese Marines and heliborne troops recaptured the vital Mekong River ferry crossing in a battle that left 139 Communists dead. Farther up the Mekong, North Vietnamese...
According to the promise made by President Nixon last week, the U.S. troops will penetrate no more than 21.7 miles into Cambodia and will be withdrawn no later than July 1. But the South Vietnamese ground forces are under no such restrictions, and may well drive deeper and stay longer. In fact, a South Vietnamese naval force was on its way toward the very heart of Cambodia at week's end. Accompanied by 30 U.S. craft, a flotilla of 70 South Vietnamese gunboats headed up the Mekong, bound for Phnom-Penh. Ostensibly, its mission is to evacuate South Vietnamese...
...convocation"-to send representatives to Washington, who would convey the faculty's opposition to the Southeast Asian adventures. It also voted to request that the Corporation place in escrow withholding taxes of consenting employees, refusing to pay these taxes to the government until American troops had withdrawn from Cambodia...
National Guardsmen used tear gas to break up a demonstration of over 2000 University of Wisconsin students blocking traffic on campus-area streets. Meanwhile, Guardsmen were withdrawn from Kent State and the University of Maryland...