Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crucial second-round ballot next Sunday. Much would depend on whether the feuding Socialists and Communists could patch up their differences and agree to support each other in the Sunday runoff. If the left were to have any chance of winning, each of the two parties would have to withdraw its candidate in districts where the other's candidate had won in the first round. They would then have to put their combined weight behind the front runner, whether Communist or Socialist. Without such a deal, the leftist vote would be split in many districts, giving a strong advantage...
...when the war was ten days old and my victory was a fact which stunned the whole world, I made a speech at the People's Assembly in which I declared my willingness to go to Geneva. Let Israel withdraw from the Arab territories occupied in 1967 and let us meet in Geneva to draw up a peace agreement. At the time I could have hit the "depth" of Israel -and Israel knew I had weapons capable of this. Any man in my position would have done this even if merely in retaliation for three previous Israeli wars...
...Four. No Soviet-owned equipment should stay in Egypt. Either you sell it to us or withdraw it within the fixed date...
Ambassador Alfred ("Roy") Atherton suffered a rude shock. The man who administered it was Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. While discussing the stalled peace negotiations, Begin told Atherton that he believed United Nations Resolution 242, which, among other things, calls for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied territories, does not apply to the West Bank. Begin's curious argument: under the terms of 242, the Israelis need withdraw only from territories whose sovereignty they recognize, and Israel has never recognized Jordan's sovereignty over the West Bank...
...that the Securities and Exchange Commission had opened an investigation into alleged past bribery and false billing practices by Textron in Jamaica and half a dozen other countries around the world in addition to Iran. Then he repeated an editorial suggestion by the New York Times that Miller voluntarily withdraw his nomination. At that, Michigan Democrat Donald Riegle Jr. exclaimed: "This committee has taken every shot we could at Mr. Miller and hasn't touched him in the slightest. Now you're saying to him: 'You take the gun and shoot yourself!' " Miller himself coolly told...