Word: withdraw
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...specific words, phrases that over the decades have acquired so much significance that for both sides to utter them is to change history. Between Syria and Israel, the game turns on an after-you-Alphonse test of who will speak the key words first. Before Israel will agree to withdraw from the strategic Golan Heights it captured from Syria in 1967, Jerusalem must first hear "full peace" and "normal relations" from Syria. Before Syria will say those words, it wants to hear from Israel "complete withdrawal...
...Rabin was also deeply concerned that Assad had offered no new assurances about security arrangements if Israel does withdraw from the Golan Heights. Rising in a steep escarpment to a height of 2,970 ft. on the Syrian-Israeli border, the Golan commands all the low ground that constitutes northern Israel. Syria repeatedly shelled Israeli kibbutzim from the Heights in the 1960s. Not a shot has been fired there since Henry Kissinger brokered a troop- separation accord in 1974, but poised on both sides are thousands of tanks, a bristling reminder of the state of war that has existed between...
Though she had been favored to win the national title, Kerrigan was forced to withdraw from the competition. Her doctors said she was suffering from * thigh contusions and swelling in the knee and was unable to control a simple hop, never mind a program that included several triple jumps. The assault cast a deep shadow on her ambition to earn a medal in next month's Olympics. However, even Kerrigan's rivals admitted that she deserved to be on the U.S. team, and on Saturday night officials in Detroit selected her over the runner- up, 13-year-old Michelle Kwan...
...stealing checks, he escaped charges in the shotgun death of a girlfriend seven years later but served a total of eight years for a burglary and two assaults on other women, one involving kidnapping. Free again in 1985, he abducted a female acquaintance and forced her at knifepoint to withdraw $6,000 from the bank. He got 16 years for that, but thanks to California's rules mandating early release for good behavior, Davis served only half; emerging just in time, if his confession is to be believed, to relax at a bucolic, vine-decorated "transitional living" facility...
...month, his aides and foreign donors alike objected when he named himself chairman of the Economic Council for Development and Construction, created to administer the $2 billion in international aid pledged for economic development of Jericho and the Gaza Strip. To keep the planning on track, Arafat agreed to withdraw and give greater authority to economists and technocrats responsible for daily operations...