Word: withdraw
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...Bush Administration, the domestic call to arms comes at an inopportune moment. Just last January, pro-Israel lawmakers were able to persuade Bush to withdraw a proposal for a $15 billion weapons sale to the Saudis. The Administration is already up to its ears in controversy over its refusal to grant Israel $10 billion in housing-loan guarantees. As a result, ) the American defense industry regards the pro-Israel lobby as its nemesis in the dispute...
John M. Newman, a former U.S. Army major who teaches history at the University of Maryland, has entered this fray with a meticulously documented argument that Kennedy planned to withdraw from Vietnam had he been re-elected in 1964. Earnest yet overheated, grounded in footnotes yet prone to flights of conspiratorial conjecture, JFK and Vietnam (Warner Books; 506 pages; $22.95) reads like a strange hybrid between a doctoral dissertation and the rough draft of an Oliver Stone screenplay, and with reason: it was, indeed, Newman's dissertation, and Stone did use it as a basis for his movie...
...overly optimistic battlefield assessments after American advisers were sent to Vietnam in the early 1960s. These were designed to encourage Kennedy to continue America's commitment there. Newman contends that Kennedy eventually became aware of this deception, but he went along because it served his own secret purpose: to withdraw some of the U.S. advisers under the guise that the war was going so well that they were no longer necessary. The "elaborate deception," Newman writes, "was originally designed to forestall Kennedy from a precipitous withdrawal, but he was now using it -- judo style -- to justify just that...
Only 10 months after President Francois Mitterrand made her the first woman to hold France's second highest office, she was forced to withdraw. Her resignation follows the ruling Socialist Party's humiliating trouncing two weeks ago in regional elections...
...Belgrade, Gen. Zivota Panic, acting head of the federal general staff, said the army would not withdraw from the republic and warned: "We are closer to war than peace...