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...White House invited Dole to appear with the President, the Bush campaign reacted immediately. "We had Dole finished," an aide complained to staffers in the office of Reagan's chief of staff, Howard Baker, "and now you're letting him up." Despite the grousing, the White House refused to rescind the invitation. Said an Administration official of the Bush campaign: "They're behaving like children...
Convoys are moving again during daylight hours in Eritrea, with agency staffers driving the perilous roads at their own risk. But much of Tigre remains cut off; the Tigrean People's Liberation Front has demanded that the Mengistu government rescind its resettlement policy before it guarantees the safety of the food trucks...
Just as startling was the assembled leaders' decision to rescind the pariah status of Egypt, which was suspended from the Arab League in 1979 after signing its peace treaty with Israel. While Syria vetoed the re-entry of its archrival into the league, the communique declared that re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Egypt "is a sovereign matter to be decided by each state." Within days, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Kuwait had all renewed relations, and at least four other states were expected to follow suit...
...them again if the dollar needs rescuing. Any little upward nudge in interest rates, however, is likely to send the stock market into the tank again. When the Fed's open market committee met last week for the first time since the crash, some economists hoped the group might rescind September's discount-rate increase. But no such announcement came. One reason may be that the committee has too little information so far about Black Monday's effect on the economy. Without solid proof that growth is imperiled, the Fed is probably reluctant to announce a dollar-endangering drop...
...satellites, Gorbachev declared that "all ((Communist)) parties are completely and irreversibly independent." He stressed this point again in an address to foreign delegates two days later, renouncing the "arrogance of omniscience" that he said had formerly governed Moscow's ties with its Communist allies. Gorbachev's statements appeared to rescind the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, proposing intervention in defense of socialist regimes, that was used to justify the invasion of Czechoslovakia...