Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public pressures than by events. Late last month Vice President Al Gore tried to sell Aristide on a plan that would leave Haiti's most powerful man, Port-au-Prince police chief Lieut. Colonel Michel Francois, in place without setting a date for the President's own return -- a retreat from the Governors Island accord signed last summer...
...angry and frustrated at a costly mission gone wrong, even a dignified retreat is proving difficult to secure. Last week seven more service members died when their AC-130 gunship crashed off the Kenyan coast en route to Mogadishu. As the last American ground troops packed up for their departure this week, free-lance gunmen continued to take potshots at guard posts and passing convoys. Eight warships are deployed offshore should trouble erupt...
Take the Red Line to South Station and from there catch a Plymouth and Brockton bus to Hyannis, summer retreat of the Kennedy family. From Hyannis, ride on the Steamship Authority's ferry to Nantucket. All this costs just $50, and it only takes four hours to get there...
Issues such as the Clipper chip show that with all its attributes, the information highway still possesses many drawbacks. Who is willing to give up their privacy for new gadgets? The government has an obligation to retreat on its Clipper stance, while slowing down on its infoway hype blitz...
...himself Michael as he walked away from a store with a stolen jug of wine. After consultations with A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela, order was restored when President F.W. de Klerk sent in 2,000 troops of the South African Defense Force, plus additional police units to help negotiate the retreat of the right-wing bands. Estimates of the casualties ranged to as many as 24 dead and 300 wounded...