Word: withdraw
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...stop Iraq at the Saudi border, guaranteeing by the sheer presence of American troops that an attack on Saudi Arabia is an attack on the U.S. The international boycott of Baghdad is in fact an economic offensive designed to squeeze Saddam so tightly that he is forced to withdraw from Kuwait. "Nobody can stand up forever to total economic deprivation," said Bush last week...
...talk with reporters, Jackson, who has been a strong supporter of Palestinian independence, rejected Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's demand that Israel withdraw from the occupied territories as a precondition for Iraq withdrawing from Kuwait...
...work last week at the United Nations and in world capitals to produce a resolution imposing comprehensive sanctions. The object is to keep Iraq from selling oil and buying arms. The Security Council, reflecting the new amity between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, resolved that Iraq must withdraw or face further international action...
...effect on real estate markets" by lowering property values and making mortgage loans harder to get. "Real estate markets," he added, "have an effect on bank results. So there is a relationship between the two. And the effect has not been good." Nonetheless, bank depositors "shouldn't withdraw their money and hide it in mattresses," says Eli Schwartz, a Lehigh University economist. "We may be having a banking crisis, but it's not going to be of the same magnitude as the S&L crisis...
...whom Washington has, until now, dismissed as a mere puppet of Vietnam. Baker himself suggested to the President two weeks ago that talks be opened with the Cambodian Prime Minister. In a decision made in typical Bush fashion -- maximum secrecy, high domestic political content -- Bush approved the move to withdraw diplomatic support of the guerrilla coalition but would go no further for now. That was still good news for those officials at the State Department, led by Under Secretary for Political Affairs Robert Kimmitt, who have been arguing for months that the U.S. should distance itself from the Khmer Rouge...