Word: pullback
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NATO promptly put its air strikes on hold and gave the Serbs three days--until Sunday night--to begin fulfilling their promises. If they did so, the bombing pause would be extended for another three days to complete and verify the pullback. The Bosnian government, for its part, pledged not to launch any attacks on the withdrawing Serbs in the Sarajevo area...
...Chechen fighters drove into Russia and terrorized the quiet provincial town of Budyonnovsk, killing as many as 100 people and gathering some 2,000 hostages in the town's three-story hospital. The rebels' commander, Shamil Basayev, rejected an offer of safe passage and said that only a Russian pullback from the breakaway republic would save the hostages. Russian troops twice stormed the hospital on Saturday; but after both attempts had failed, the authorities resumed hard bargaining with the rebels...
...Federal Reserve has jacked up interest rates seven times since February 1994. Most economists thought the hikes could reduce growth to a more sustainable 2% to 3% this year and thereby create a "soft landing" that would forestall inflation. But some forecasters now fear that a far more painful pullback could be at hand. "The slowdown is very clear and quite dramatic," says Laurence Meyer, an economic consultant in St. Louis, Missouri. "The question now is whether all this is a prelude to a recession...
...face of a rapid deployment of American force in the Persian Gulf, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered a retreat of the well-equipped Republican Guard divisions that had been menacing the Kuwaiti border. The pullback was not complete, however, and the U.S. announced it would deploy a total of 36,000 ground troops to the Gulf and began to search for a permanent solution to Iraqi aggression against Kuwait...
Israel completes its pullback from Jericho and the Gaza Strip...