Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China problem, Brezhnev struck a moderate, almost conciliatory stance. He renewed the Soviet call for a European security conference and issued the standard warning to Israel to withdraw from occupied Arab lands. Brezhnev also declared that a U.S. defeat in Viet Nam, which he described as "inevitable," would be proof of the changing balance of power between the capitalist and Communist blocs...
Martin, 55, a former U.S. court tennis champion, may be just the man to solve the problem. Last week he allowed that if the I.L.T.F. does not relax its old policies, he will as a last resort withdraw the U.S. from the federation. Advantage, Mr. Martin...
...television address last night, President Nixon revealed plans to withdraw 150,000 additional troops from South Vietnam by May 1971-with further withdrawals depending on the progress of the Paris negotiations...
While promising that "we shall withdraw more than 150,000 over the next year if we make progress on the negotiating front," Nixon said that he "must report with regret that no progress has taken place" in the quest for a negotiated settlement...
...State Department has tacitly encouraged Latin American governments to make settlements with kidnapers, but some U.S. diplomats take a more militant line. "If we don't declare a no-ransom policy," says one Foreign Service officer, "diplomats will withdraw until they and their families live in armed colonies." Nor is the patience of Latin American governments unlimited. During the Elbrick episode, one hardline Brazilian military man suggested that the 15 prisoners demanded as ransom by the rebels be taken to a public square, where one would be shot every hour until Elbrick was released. Argentina's decision...