Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton promised the nation that no American ground troops would be sent into Yugoslavia, although it seems doubtful that much can be accomplished from the air. Whether Milosevic will be deterred from his grip on Kosovo remains to be seen; it seems inevitable, however, that Milosevic will never voluntarily withdraw troops from the bitterly disputed territory that, while 70 percent ethnic Albanian, is claimed as the historical and spiritual heartland of the Serb...
...others, however, if Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refuses to withdraw troops and NATO, facing another credibility gap, sends in ground support, the real events will happen trench by trench. As field commanders on all sides make seemingly insignificant day to day decisions--where to move a group of civilians, which targets in a town will be hit first, which town to move to next--they will come to define the course of the war more definitely than the press releases from home...
PSLM was one of the principal organizers of the 250-person Rally for Justice held last Tuesday, at which the University announced its commitment to full public disclosure of factory locations. PSLM members are currently urging the University to withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an organization that plans to monitor clothing factories worldwide...
While the five professors refused to discussthe details of the case or their reasoning, in aletter to the editor sent to The Crimson, theywrote that they thoroughly reviewed the materialsavailable before making the motion to requireDouglas to withdraw...
This advance, however, seems to have been completely overshadowed by a decision that was nearly a foregone conclusion--the full Faculty's vote to dismiss D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000. Given their options, the Faculty made the right choice--to dismiss Douglas, rather than require him to withdraw, as five Faculty Council members had proposed. In the end, the Faculty followed the Administrative Board's recommendation by an extremely lop-sided vote...