Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Citing specific cases, he said the United States should withdraw its remaining forces from Taiwan and remove pressure from Japan to expand its military power because expansion "would unsettle all of Asia...
Carter's clarifying statement that in a settlement Israel should withdraw to the 1967 borders with only "minor alterations" (a favorite Arab code word) of the frontiers was almost more than Cairo had dared hope for. Although the Egyptians insist upon regaining all of Sinai, they believe that some modifications along the border between the West Bank and Israel are necessary where villages were divided by the 1949 armistice lines...
...sides backed away from a showdown. The toolmakers' unofficial strike committee, meeting in a Birmingham pub called Good Companions, decided they would ask the strikers for a vote to end the walkout-provided that Leyland and the A.u.E.W. would agree to two conditions: 1) Leyland must publicly withdraw its threat to fire strikers, 2) the strike leaders must be promised a meeting with Leyland and A.U.E.W. executives to air their gripes. The probable agenda for that meeting: standardizing toolmakers' pay in all Leyland plants and restoring the pay differentials, presumably as part of any Phase 3 government program...
...found several students guilty of "interfering with normal University processes," and forced them to withdraw from the College. The students were expelled because they demonstrated in support of their political beliefs. The CRR's record does not deserve support, and both Faculty members and students have proposed reforms. Their efforts, however, have been singularly unsuccessful. While students continued to boycott the CRR, Faculty members could point to student dissatisfaction as a reason to reform. Now, even that bargaining point is gone...
Khrushchev's visit to China in the fall of 1959, ostensibly to celebrate National Day on the first of October, was tedious and painful. On that occasion Khrushchev announced he would withdraw all his experts from China and pressed the Chinese to pay all their debts. [The Soviets also] told the Chinese they wanted to set up a long-range broadcast station in China. Had they won that argument they would have been able to control China's entire communications