Word: withdraw
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That debate ended last week with a U.S. veto of a strongly pro-P.L.O. resolution. Although not a member of the Council, Syria played the key role in drafting the resolution, which would have required Israel to withdraw from all territories occupied during the 1967 war, and would have recognized the Palestinians' "right to establish an independent state in Palestine." As expected, Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan cast the U.S.'s 13th veto in the Council's 30-year history, because the resolution would have altered the deliberately vague language of Resolution 242 adopted in 1967, which...
...student is suspected of cheating and the Administrative Board finds him guilty, and he confesses his guilt, he is required to withdraw from the University for a year," John Marquard, senior tutor of Dudley House, said yesterday...
...tente. The officials refused to say what, if anything, Kissinger extracted from the Soviet leader on the Angola situation. Perhaps significantly, however, they said that the U.S. will watch closely in the coming weeks to see if the Soviet leaders exert pressure on Fidel Castro's Cuba to withdraw any of its 10,000 troops, which have helped the M.P.L.A. gain the upper hand against two U.S.-backed factions (see THE WORLD...
...with their help, UNITA can hold the M.P.L.A. to a military stalemate. That in turn might induce M.P.L.A. Leader Agostinho Neto to accept a power-sharing agreement with Savimbi, who is solidly backed by the Ovimbundu, Angola's largest tribal group. In that case, Pretoria could offer to withdraw its forces on condition that the Cubans and Soviets do the same...
...summit's host, Ethiopia felt it should remain neutral; Uganda also abstained from the voting because its leader, Field Marshal Idi Amin, is O.A.U. chairman. If South Africa were to withdraw its forces from Angola, most of Black Africa might favor an immediate cease-fire and the installation of a coalition government in Luanda, which would give a voice to each of the country's varied regional, tribal and political factions. No regime, for example, could govern effectively without the cooperation of the pro-UNITA Ovimbundu tribe in the south. Yet many African states have been unwilling...