Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most audacious opponent of Franco inside Spain, Luisa María Narváez y Macías, fifth Duchess of Valencia, was restless in the quiet of her ancestral palace at Avila. But she had promised, after her third sojourn in Franco's jails, to withdraw from active politics for a while. So she rode horseback, drove her sleek Cadillac with the ducal crest on it, ran a charity kitchen in a wing of her palace, and wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent...
...their minds to yield to U.N. demands (see col. 2), the negotiators were back at their conference table. The Kaesong talks went on behind an enclosure of barbed wire and strictest secrecy, but the Communists broadcast to the world their conditions for a ceasefire: ¶The opposing armies to withdraw to a distance of ten kilometers (about 6.2 miles) north and south of the 38th parallel; ¶The 12½-mile-wide strip thus created across the peninsula to be under the civil administration of the North and South Korean governments; ¶Prisoners to be exchanged; ¶ All "foreign troops...
This set of terms is clearly unacceptable to the U.N. Item: it would cause the U.N. forces to give up substantial ground already won. Item: it provides no machinery, e.g., mutual inspection, to make sure that the truce is kept. Item: to withdraw from Korea under any circumstances "in the shortest possible time" would be to leave South Korea to the mercy of the Communists once again...
...China were aboard the Ming Sung ships. But they excused the traffic as a minor affair, defended Ming Sung's Canadian registry as a protective device for Canadian investors and taxpayers, i.e., the banks who hold Ming Sung ship mortgages. Prime Minister St. Laurent flatly refused to withdraw the ships' Canadian charter. The Liberal majority, without a single defection from the ranks, voted down, 116 to 36, the Tory proposal to cancel the registry...
...Withdraw across the Yalu...