Word: pullback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peres and Rabin have openly disagreed over tactics and emphasis in such matters as the amount of military aid that Jerusalem should request from the U.S. (Peres wanted more than Rabin) and the disengagement with Egypt in the Sinai (Peres wanted greater concessions from Egypt in exchange for a pullback of Israeli forces). Following the recent riots in Hebron, in which both Arab civilians and Israeli soldiers were injured, Rabin publicly attacked Peres' Defense Ministry for its administration of the West Bank...
...Moreover, South African troops and logistic support have been withdrawn. The full extent of South African assistance may never be known. Before the pullback, South Africans kept popping up in the strangest places, on the remotest roads. Last week it was different. 'You see,' quipped a UNITA guide on a walk through the railroad junction of Lumege, 'there are no white Angolans up here.' As it happened, if the 'white Angolans'-UNlTA's euphemism for the South Africans-had been around, Lumege might not have fallen the next...
Last week the South African Cabinet met twice in preparation for the opening of Parliament, where some lively debate on the Angolan intervention was expected. Some South African government leaders favor a unilateral pullback. They worry that their involvement in an uphill struggle will destroy the fragile détente the country has achieved with some black African states and severely drain the economy. Others argue that the prospect of an outright M.P.L.A. victory in Angola, and the presence of militantly anti-South African Cubans in the country, requires an uncompromising stand. Though Pretoria has announced the biggest reserve call...
...agreement until last week, the government had earlier decided to honor a timetable drawn up as though it had. Thus the Mobil engineers were welcomed heartily when they first arrived at Ras Sudr under U.N. escort, a day before the signing ceremony. An Israeli colonel in charge of the pullback from the fields told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin: "We will leave the oilfields to the Egyptians just as we found them. We have even cleaned up the mosque for them...
...positions in the Sinai, Israel's military men-drawing on lessons learned in the October war-are revising their tactics to get more punch for the Israeli pound from a smaller army using more advanced technology. Even as Israeli forces in the Sinai began their preparations for a pullback last week, Chief of Staff General Mordechai Gur talked about the new positions they will take up. At a briefing at Bir Gifgafa in the Sinai, attended by TIME Correspondent Donald Neff, Gur said: "I would like to remove the word lines from our lexicon. If in the future...