Word: withdraw
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That the nomination has even made it this far is a testament to Bush's personal popularity and political strength. Consider that Gates was nominated for the post of CIA director once before--in 1987. And he was forced to withdraw because Iran-Contra was too hot and Gates had his head in the oven. Now newly uncovered evidence indicates that Gates knew more than he originally let on about Iran-Contra...
...question his ability to understand a rapidly changing international scene. His latest mistake: publicly concluding that Gennadi Yanayev and his co- conspirators were "the men in charge" and calling sanctions "premature." This follows Mitterrand's efforts to broker a peace plan just hours before the deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, and his vain / attempt to halt German unification...
...reason to fear that he might end up among the losers. During the last five months of 1990, largely under the influence of Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet Union had sided with the U.S. -- and most of the rest of the world -- in demanding that Saddam Hussein withdraw his army of occupation from Kuwait. For reformers like Shevardnadze, Saddam was a grotesque example of the kind of Third World thug whom the Kremlin had too often supported over the decades. One of Yeltsin's closest deputies, the foreign minister of the Russian Federation, Andrei Kozyrev, called Saddam "the child...
FINANCIAL FALLOUT. Already burned once by the B.C.C.I. shutdown, panicky crowds in Hong Kong rushed to withdraw their cash last week from local Citibank branches. The two-day run was triggered by unfounded reports that Citibank was insolvent. Last month Hong Kong's overdue seizure of the local subsidiary of B.C.C.I. froze $1.4 billion in accounts held by 40,000 hapless depositors. The colony's residents were still so shaken by the shutdown that on Friday they staged a second run, on the British-based Standard Chartered Bank after rumors that it had lost either its banking license...
...Israel to halt construction of new settlements in the territories or lift the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip by Israeli troops. "Trust me," Shamir told a gathering of Knesset members from the small rightist parties that hold his ruling Likud coalition together. "We won't withdraw one millimeter...