Word: pullback
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...strapped Israel $1.2 million a day. What prevents the Israelis from leaving is what plagues Lebanon itself: the lack of a strong central government in Beirut that could bring order to the country. Though Peres admitted last week that withdrawal remains "several months" away, other officials estimate that the pullback will not take place before next summer...
...last week and brought it to the Israeli port of Haifa. Authorities detained nine passengers, most of them Lebanese Shi'ites who had just returned from Iran. Israeli officials insist Israel will not turn southern Lebanon into a "North Bank," but Defense Minister Moshe Arens admits that a complete pullback is "going to take a little time...
...their field commander's request for tactical nuclear weapons. In the end, a combination of resolve and restraint wins a kind of peace: after the NSC orders air strikes to sever the Soviet supply routes, Muskie and his U.S.S.R. counterpart exchange messages, and they agree to negotiate a pullback...
...either side of the Iron Curtain; and the removal of about 3,000 of the roughly 6,000 U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in Europe. A similar approach was urged by a number of allied defense officials at a closed-door meeting in Brussels earlier this year; they suggested a pullback of about 2,000 tactical weapons (artillery shells, mines and short-range missiles) from the front lines to meet the concerns of Western Europe's antimissile deployment movement...
Nonetheless, Washington still hopes that by depicting the partial pullback as the first step in a complete Israeli withdrawal, it may be able to prevail upon Syria to remove some of its soldiers as well. As Reagan explained at his White House press conference last week, "It certainly will give us a better case for breaking the roadblock that has been established by Syria and persuading them to keep their original promise that when others withdrew, they would withdraw." That is the essence of the message U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane is expected to carry to Syria on his first...