Word: withdraw
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Europeans refer to Reagan as the "Emperor President," Vernon says, to express a perception that he moves without any thought of consulting European allies. The President's decision to withdraw American troops from Lebanon without consulting the French and British military about possible ramifications for their troops' security, has helped to reinforce this view. It has been interpreted as the latest in a series of alienating foreign policy moves on the part of the Reagan Administration...
...virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army, that may be the best the U.S. can now hope for. The probable alternatives are endless civil war or some form of partition of Lebanon between Syrian, Israeli, Christian and Muslim areas. Indeed, if the May 17 agreement is formally broken, Israel may withdraw its forces seven miles from the Awali to the Zahrani River, establishing to the south a semipermanent "North Bank" Israeli administration of the type it runs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The one Lebanese outcome that seems almost impossible to imagine is the one the U.S. desires...
...Soviet relations continues to improve, it will be difficult to resume productive arms-control negotiations. One obstacle is very much of the Soviets' making. They justified their walkout, and have set conditions for their return that are not acceptable to the alliance: that the U.S. agree to withdraw from Europe the nine Pershing II and 32 cruise missiles that were deployed last December...
...actor of integrity, he has found a style that permits him to withdraw a certain distance from his material without entirely dissociating himself from it. And there are moments when he actually persuades you that a Restoration comedy might get going around here any minute now, though the air in that country is too thin for the hard-breathing Bologna to breathe...
Students who forced the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) to hold an open meeting on April 19th last year need to follow up that and other efforts to force Harvard to withdraw its investments in companies that operate in South Africa. The call for a boycott of the ACSR is especially timely...