Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time has come for the aging dictator to step down and allow the Nicaraguan people to determine their own fate. The time has come for the U.S. to withdraw all forms of support to a government that rules through force and terror...
Carter, Begin and Sadat reached an agreement on the basic principles for a peace settlement late Sunday night. The framework includes provisions for a five-year transition period in which Israel would withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza...
...always, Sharietmadari refused to criticize the Shah openly. When a reporter asked him recently whether he advocated the removal of the Shah, Sharietmadari said crisply: "Withdraw that question...
...that the guerrillas should be in charge. Mugabe arrived in Lusaka several days later, was briefed on the Smith meeting by Nigerian officials involved in the negotiations, and then sought the advice of several other African leaders. Both Nyerere and Machel argued that Smith was not really prepared to withdraw in favor of a Patriotic Front-dominated government, and that the price of the Front's cooperation should be a letter of resignation by Smith. It was Nyerere who revealed to the press on Sept. 1 that the secret meeting had taken place. Nkomo at first denied the report...
These steps scarcely add up to anything like a general U.S. corporate retreat-nor should they. In South Africa itself, such a withdrawal is a strategy favored mainly by some white liberals and middle-class black activists. Though they often talk pullout in public, the black militants within the labor force are far more pragmatic in private. A black union leader told McWhirter: "I would say companies should withdraw. But if they did, it would be death...