Word: pullout
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...involving Wright. The story: Mallick and the Wrights were fifty-fifty partners in an investment company called Mallightco, but in 1987 Wright instructed the trustee of his blind trust to sell out. Mallick told the committee that he wanted to "bet the farm" on one more deal before the pullout...
...announced that it would end its occupation and withdraw all its troops, estimated at some 60,000, from Kampuchea by the end of September. That opened the door to a broad rapprochement between the U.S.S.R. and China, which had bitterly resisted the Vietnamese encroachment. Beijing made the Vietnamese pullout one of three conditions for making up with Moscow (the others: an end to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and resolution of conflicts along the 4,500-mile U.S.S.R.-China border...
Whether because of Soviet pressure or its own fatigue, Viet Nam dropped its insistence that a fall pullout could take place only if all aid to the forces opposing its puppet government in Phnom Penh, including those of Prince Norodom Sihanouk and the murderous Khmer Rouge, was simultaneously halted. Kampuchea reserved the right to seek "assistance" once more if such aid continued, but many analysts believe Hanoi is more interested in concentrating on its own sadly deteriorated economy. The Vietnamese hope their withdrawal will ultimately open up economic links to the U.S., which has long made their departure a condition...
After nine years and two months of humiliation, frustration and defeat on the battle grounds of Afghanistan, the Soviet Union was bringing the last of its boys home. For the demoralized Soviets, the deceptively festive homecoming in Termez marked the closing phase of a nine-month pullout that is scheduled to conclude this week with the return of the last 20,000 Soviet troops...
...which has given $2 billion in aid to the rebels over the past decade, the Soviet pullout provoked smug smiles among State Department officials. At the American Club in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, a hangout for aid workers, diplomats and intelligence types, the champagne was already flowing. Still, the U.S. has difficult decisions to make in the months ahead, as do the Soviets. In the ten months since the accord was signed in Geneva securing the Soviet withdrawal, the operating word has been "symmetry." Last week the Bush Administration held a one-hour high-level review of U.S. policy...