Word: retreated
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BEIRUT, Lebanon-Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) opened intensive secret negotiations yesterday on the details of their proposed "honorable retreat" from encircled West Beirut. Lebanese officials reported...
...civil war came last week with surprising speed. Some 2,000 shock troops loyal to former Defense Minister Hissene Habre, 39, advanced from north and east on the dusty capital of N'Djamena. When the rebels appeared, the armies of President Goukouni Oueddei beat a confused retreat. Stranded, with only a few loyal soldiers left, Goukouni fled ignominiously into exile by boarding a canoe to cross the Chari River into Cameroon. By sundown, the three-year reign of Goukouni was over and Habre, who received support from Egypt and Sudan, was ensconced in the presidential palace...
Sheppe describes a fantasy of his: to establish on one of the more than 2000 islands off the coast of his native Maine a seenic scholarly retreat, with fine facilities for research and academic work in a number of fields. Professional and amateur scholars alike could come to pursue their interests there, with or without the sponsorship of the great universities...
...warheads began falling tomorrow, Hallice remarks, the safest spot in the Northeast would be near the Canadian border, at a scenic retreat called Bear Lake. "But there are no shelters of any kind up there," he adds. "So if the fallout doesn't get you, the bears probably will...
...long day of combat over the budget was behind him, and Ronald Reagan was heading for his retreat, Rancho del Cielo, near Santa Barbara, Calif., to mix the woodsy labor he loves with cramming for his forthcoming summit meetings in Western Europe. Before he left Washington, the President discussed his trip with TIME White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett and Senior Correspondent John F. Stacks. The President's voice was raspy-the result, he said, of a malfunctioning fireplace that had filled his den with smoke the night before-but he seemed relaxed as he talked about foreign policy...