Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year SASC helped mobilize campus opposition to a proposed retreat in University policy towards South Africa, which prompted a rare open meeting on the subject...
...State Department however appeared to retreat from Reagan's pledge that the Marines will remain in Lebanon until other foreign forces are withdrawn...
...book and risk being shot by security police if they deviate into independent maneuvers. Half-trained Asian infantrymen, most of whom cannot understand their Russian-speaking officers, march stolidly forward, knowing that if they falter they will be machine-gunned by the KGB. So blindly is the stricture against retreat enforced that even a temporary strategic withdrawal is forbidden, and the Soviet officer who recommends it is dragged out and shot...
...brave words and wrenching farewells. In hundreds of cases, men left for unknown destinations, leaving wives and families behind. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat called the long siege of Beirut and the evacuation "a victory for the resistance." The P.L.O. did manage to sustain the sense of an honorable retreat, with flags flying and the endless cannonades and thunderous volleys of rockets. The departing guerrillas and the friends who saw them off fired their automatic rifles and machine guns so furiously that a U.S. Marine said he felt as though he were on a firing range. Stray bullets killed...
Since the imposition of martial law almost nine months ago, Solidarity has once more become the stuff of dreams, its organizational structure crushed and its leader, Walesa, under house arrest. While calling on Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at his summer retreat on the Black Sea last week, Poland's leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, labeled the tattered remnant of the suspended trade union a "counterrevolutionary underground, whose activities are inspired and supported from the outside, mainly from the United States...