Word: withdraw
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Like many African leaders, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda has repeatedly called for economic sanctions against South Africa. He has even threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth if Britain fails to punish Pretoria. Yet Kaunda's country can ill afford sanctions. Landlocked Zambia, already suffering through its worst recession since independence in 1964, buys much of its industrial and agricultural equipment from Pretoria and has almost two- thirds of its non-oil imports shipped through South Africa. If the West were to impose sanctions on South Africa, economic necessity, compounded by a sense of vengeance, would probably move Pretoria to stop...
...CONFLICTING PULLS of faith and intellect left him at one point last year coping with what he calls a "pretty serious emotional trauma" that caused him to withdraw to his room for two weeks. Melendez says close friends--whom he only half-jokingly calls his "Board of Directors"--"stayed with me all the time, conducted my affairs, ran the Undergraduate Council for me, and basically represented me to the world so that nobody knew I was having problems--and talked me through it until I recovered...
Parties like West Germany's Greens, who have long opposed the stationing of U.S. missiles in Europe, are capitalizing on such fears and arguing against anything and everything nuclear with renewed vigor. Last week the Greens adopted a two-pronged program calling on Bonn to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and abolish nuclear power. "The connection is obvious," says Uwe Nehrlich, director of West Germany's Research Institute for International Politics and Security...
...fellow Pushtuns in Pakistan to cut guerrilla supply lines and unify the ranks of a regime so sharply divided that it is sometimes referred to as an example of "two-party Communism." If Najibullah can consolidate a solid and loyal Soviet-style government, Moscow may feel secure enough to withdraw its 120,000 troops from Afghanistan...
Americans sometimes think that it is enough to express disapproval of a regime and to withdraw economic support. Both gestures make us feel better, but they do not necessarily work. What Americans are much less inclined to do ! is provide the difficult and costly positive actions needed to promote democracy: careful involvement with local opposition groups, behind-the-scenes diplomatic maneuvers and, occasionally, military pressure. The U.S. has sometimes tried to encourage and work with prodemocratic political organizations, open or covert, in other countries, but it has not been particularly successful or skillful in this effort. We must understand that...