Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smart family matures in true harmony, Ozzie and Harriet and David and Ricky aside. How dull it would be anyway. Nonetheless, to pull off such a celebration with any degree of grace-to say nothing of respect for the 80-year-old-differences, deeply divisive differences, would have to be set aside for the duration. No one had put a voice to this consideration, yet everyone had thought it through. The insect-humming Pennsylvania countryside would not become an arena. At least this once, one could hold one's tongue...
...Minister Yitzhak Shamir said last week that he would like the U.S. to act as an intermediary with Syria in brokering a mutual troop withdrawal from Lebanon. Israeli officials also indicated for the first time that they might agree to bring their forces home without waiting for Syria to pull its 40,000 troops out of northern and eastern Lebanon. Nonetheless, U.S. officials in Washington cautioned against expecting quick results from the Murphy shuttle...
...spikers had best pull together soon--they head to the University of New Hampshire on Sunday for a tournment...
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres would like to pull his troops out of Lebanon. Apart from the mounting casualties, the occupation costs financially 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...
Under the agreement, which Morocco may have helped to broker, the French will remove some 3,000 men, 800 vehicles and 40 aircraft, which have been buttressing the government of President Hissène Habré; the Libyans will pull out their 5,000 men from northern Chad, where they have been backing the rebel forces of Habré's onetime ally and ousted predecessor, Goukouni Oueddei. Libya and France greeted with relief their anticipated departure from the costly stalemate. But the Chadians, mired in a seesaw 19-year-old civil war, were anything but jubilant. Stung...