Word: withdraw
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...Middle East that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have held since 1977. A week earlier, King Hussein of Jordan and P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat had agreed on a joint approach to the Palestinian problem. The accord, the text of which Jordan released last Saturday, predictably called for Israel to withdraw from the territories it occupies. But the agreement also offered a conditional acceptance of United Nations Resolution 242, which acknowledges Israel's right ! to exist. In the past, the P.L.O. has adamantly refused to recognize Israel...
Though the first withdrawal phase has been completed, the Israelis are still occupying the heartland of Shi'ite resistance, dozens of hill villages to the northeast of Tyre. So far, two senior Israeli officers and a sergeant have been killed behind the new lines. A pro-Israeli militia, the South Lebanon Army, once estimated to number over 2,000, has lost a third of its members through defections in recent months, and could disintegrate completely once the Israelis have pulled back behind their border. Israel has faced a dismal choice: to stay on in Lebanon, sustaining more casualties and serving...
...ethical criteria for accepting military contracts: to a demand that Merck & Co. cease making contributrions to charitable organizations and non-profit institutions: to an appeal to Standard Oil of California. Baxter Travenol, Texaco, and Xerox to abide by minimal standard of ethical conduct in their South African operations or withdraw from that country...
SIMPLY PUT, the most effective way for the United States to force reform or any change in South Africa is to threaten and carry out removal of all political, corporate, and economic support for the system. Although Harvard's divestment per se may not swing a particular corporation to withdraw from South Africa, it becomes more potent when combined with the divestiture efforts of other universities, state and Federal institutions and organizations, leading toward the goal of ending all U.S. corporate involvement with the current South African regime...
...holiday at the time," Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons last week as opposition M.P.s jeered. It was a rare attempt by the Iron Lady to skirt responsibility, and Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock challenged her explanation. Four times the Prime Minister, shouting, demanded that he withdraw his remarks; four times Kinnock refused. "Frankly," he told the House, "I do not believe her. The domineering style of her government forbids the belief that she was not involved in an issue as important as this...