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...Still, whatever the final image, Hizballah will have lost substantial ground militarily. It will be forced to cede control of southern Lebanon to the Lebanese Army, which it had previously resisted, and will have seen much of its capability to strike Israel with missiles neutered. The political path ahead remains perilous for a movement now forced to choose between its identity as an anti-Israel resistance and as a Lebanese political party and social movement. Although Hizballah won't put down its weapons immediately, the pressure to do so - or, at least, to put them under the control...
...hopes to capitalize by playing up a previously scheduled retreat on Iraq at Camp David, to be held early next week. U.S. officials and their counterparts in the new Iraqi government will be joined electronically to discuss how the White House can help, and how much responsibility it can cede back to the home team...
...CALEDONIA got France to cede direct rule in 1991. A vote on full sovereignty for the South Pacific archipelago is expected between...
...Tower as the tallest. Bloomberg tried a bureaucratic end run, offering to swap with the Port Authority control of the city's airports for ground zero, in hopes of then removing Silverstein as developer. That effort failed, but it didn't stop Bloomberg from repeatedly calling for Silverstein to cede control. "We need this now to advance our economy and pay tribute to those who died there," Bloomberg said of the WTC rebuilding. "Not a decade and a half in the future, when it fits a developer's financial plan...
...into crisis? It's very simple: the specter of new elections. I have made it very clear to my allies that if there's a break in the coalition, I have no other alternative but to go back to the voters. No one wants to lose their job or cede the power they've acquired...