Word: quit
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...mediate a P.L.O. withdrawal and persuade the Israelis to lift their siege of West Beirut, Haig will be able to quit in fact as well as in name. (He left Washington last Thursday for a Fourth of July weekend in West Virginia, uncertain when, or if, he would be back.) But such a settlement will only bring a new set of problems to the fore. The U.S. will then have to work out some formula for an Israeli withdrawal from a neutralized Lebanon. The goal, after that, will be to revive the long-stalled negotiations on autonomy for the Palestinians...
...round of talks ended, during the June 1979 Vienna summit between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. Rowny, 65, a retired Army lieutenant general, was the representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT n). He opposed compromises made during the talks and quit the delegation in protest on the eve of the treaty-signing ceremony. He then devoted himself to defeating SALT II in the Senate and to electing Ronald Reagan as President...
...Lebanon opposed a P.L.O. armed presence, either within the Lebanese army or in the refugee camps, and they agreed that the P.L.O. leadership must leave Beirut. But the U.S. did not agree with Israel that all 6,000 Palestinian soldiers in the Beirut area should be required to quit Lebanon. Washington contended that guerrillas who were prepared to surrender their arms should be permitted to remain in Lebanon as part of the Palestinian refugee population. The key element for the U.S. and the Lebanese was not Israel's call for a total eradication of the P.L.O...
...aides that the frictions had become insupportable. White House aides insist that there was no plot to get Haig; in fact, they thought that it would be best if the Secretary of State stayed on until after the November congressional elections. So Reagan would not directly ask Haig to quit-but he resolved that the next time Haig threatened to resign, he would take him at his word. Indeed, there are rumors among the White House staff that as long as two weeks ago, Reagan began sounding out Shultz as to whether he would take the job if and when...
...Walid Jumblatt, a hereditary chief of the Druze sect and head of the leftist Muslim group known as the People's National Movement, which was allied with the P.L.O.* Jumblatt's two representatives in the Cabinet, Tourism Minister Marwan Hamdeh and Economy Minister Khalid Jumblatt, also quit their posts...