Word: retreated
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...Shultz, who helped to negotiate the pact and views it as the only tangible accomplishment of his diplomacy in the Middle East, fought for it past the bitter end (see following story). Appearing before reporters hours after Reagan's breakfast retreat from the accord, the Secretary of State insisted with an unaccustomed quaver in his voice that it was a "good agreement" that should be preserved. Said Shultz: "Those who would dispense with it must bear the responsibility to find alternative formulas for Israeli withdrawal." Another State Department official made the same point, only more bluntly: "We were asked...
...stand for." Congress, however, is unlikely to do much except complain when it reconvenes this week after an eleven-day recess. Democrats are thanking their luck that they never brought to a vote resolutions mandating a pullout of the Marines, since Reagan could have then blamed them for a retreat that he later had to order on his own. Nor do they see much point in framing new resolutions that might be "overtaken by events...
Thus last week did the Marines begin pulling out of Lebanon - a complex and potentially harrowing retreat that must be staged under the gunsights of the Muslim militia men who flank them on three sides. Men and matériel will move across a strip of uncontested land directly west of the Marine compound to the beach and out to sea. So far at least, the huge camp breaking was proceeding with remarkable smoothness. Summed up Base Commander Brigadier General James Joy: "The militiamen know our position is that if we are attacked, we are going to defend ourselves very...
...hinted that a freeze on the further installation of new U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe (a total of 572 are scheduled to be deployed by the end of 1988) might help get talks going again. But Reagan ruled that out last week. A moratorium, he said, "would be a retreat, and it would not do anything to speed up negotiations if we now fell back and delayed deploying...
Donoso sets his simple, seemingly linear story in an isolated country park. The Ventura family, consisting of seven siblings, their spouses and their 33 children, has made its fortune on a family-owned gold mine in an unnamed South American country. Each summer they retreat from the capital city to their country home, built near their gold mine and surrounded by profile fields of thistle. Each autumn, the thistles seed, the air gets too thick to breathe, and the Ventura family returns to the city...