Word: withdraw
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...advance, the issue of who represents the Palestinians would have been settled for the first time in 23 years. The negotiators would decide how to ensure Israel's security, withdraw the army of occupation, provide free access to Jerusalem's holy places and define how 1.7 million Arabs could share their West Bank and Gaza homeland with 210,000 Israeli Jews who also live in the territories...
...idea of recruiting gay men and lesbians. Some of the callers mistakenly believed that the Kennedy School was about to support affirmative action based on sexual orientation. While not all of the responses to the Globe article were critical or misinformed, a sufficient number of people threatened to withdraw their applications or financial contributions to send the University in a frenzy...
Gorbachev immediately dispatched telegrams to the leaders of all the countries on the Security Council. He telephoned Bush again and called the leaders of the multinational coalition and Iran. Gorbachev said the Iraqi decision to withdraw unconditionally from Kuwait had created a new situation. He suggested convening the Security Council to integrate into one package the U.S. demands and the plan adopted by Iraq...
Shortly before Bush departed for the show, he had spoken with Mikhail Gorbachev, who reported that he and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz had agreed on terms for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, terms that would allow Saddam Hussein to preserve much of his military machine and political prestige...
Hours after the final deadline passed for Iraq to withdraw, allied forces swept into Kuwait. Finally, Saddam had the battle that he so publicly desired, but that he desperately tried to avoid in the final hours. -- What is left to liberate in Kuwait? -- The interrogation of captured soldiers offers fresh details about Baghdad's military machine. -- Yevgeni Primakov, adviser to President Gorbachev, provides the inside story of Moscow's ill-fated quest for a deal...