Word: pullback
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...foray into Angola, General Constand Viljoen, commander of the South African defense forces, insisted that it had been mounted in response to increased "abductions, intimidation and sabotage" by SWAPO. That explanation failed to satisfy Washington, which called for an immediate pullback. After meeting in the White House with Samora M. Machel, the visiting leader of Mozambique, President Reagan also denounced South Africa's actions in that country. Viljoen eventually announced that his troops had disrupted SWAPO supply lines and would pull out of Angola over the weekend...
...troops left, villagers sang and danced in the streets, showering Lebanese soldiers with rice and flowers as they moved in. The pullback was a Syrian success of sorts--Syrian forces are remaining in Lebanon--but Damascus so far has refrained from moving its units into the territory abandoned by Israel. Said Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he watched the pullback: "I hope the Syrians understand we have certain limits, and we will not be able to stay on the sidelines if they exceed them." Earlier in the week the Israeli Cabinet had voted to complete the three-stage withdrawal...
Israelis celebrating the 37th anniversary of independence the day after the pullback were gratified, on the whole, that their country's most disastrous military conflict was drawing to a close. They could also rejoice that a possible "major disaster," as Prime Minister Shimon Peres put it, had not disrupted the festivities. Peres was referring to the Israeli navy's earlier sinking of a freighter that both Israeli officials and the Palestine Liberation Organization confirmed had carried P.L.O. commandos. Their mission: to blow up a major target, believed to have been the defense ministry in Tel Aviv...
...Israeli troops over the weekend completed the first stage of a pullback in southern Lebanon. Full withdrawal, expected by the summer, would clear an important obstacle to diplomatic efforts in the region...
...schedule on Saturday, the Israelis withdrew from the Awali River and redeployed seven to 20 miles south. A recent increase of attacks on Israeli soldiers by Lebanese Shi'ite forces, including the killing of three last week, has prompted some Jerusalem officials to call for a reexamination of the pullback. So far, however, Peres insists that Israel will stick to its schedule...