Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North. The Pentagon considers the Tachens "valuable but not vital." They have one small airfield which cannot now be used because of artillery from Yikiang; there is a second-rate radar station. Believing the Tachens expendable, the Pentagon says that it long ago tried to persuade the Nationalists to withdraw from them. Last week, after the fall of Yikiang, the U.S. pulled out its small military advisory group on the Tachens and brought pressure on Chiang to withdraw the garrison (one full division) and some 8,000 civilians...
...hard evidence needed to prove Nicaragua's complicity to the satisfaction of the peace-keeping Organization of American States' field investigators, who announced only that the invaders' arms came over Costa Rica's "northern border." That finding, however, was enough to make Tacho hastily withdraw any further aid. Then another disillusionment dawned on Calderón Guardia. In seven years of thirst for revenge, he had convinced himself that a discontented Costa Rica would rise and hail him as its liberator. Instead, the people formed a citizen's army to defend the Figueres government...
Besides the system of levying heavy fines, Lamont can withdraw Library privileges of a student consistently disregards its rules. Some lateness is excused for sickness of other reasons, McNiff said. "But one boy who kept out a reserve book despite repeated calls for two weeks was treated severely. He was fined $16 and not allowed to purchase the book...
Chipping & Sniping. Despite the flare-up of resistance-or perhaps because of it-Perón & Co. kept right on with the sniping. In the province of Córdoba, the legislature voted to withdraw all subsidies from Roman Catholic schools. In Buenos Aires, the Peronista newspaper Democracia called for the removal of Roman Catholic "idols" (i.e., religious statues) from schools. Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi signed a decree authorizing non-Catholic religious organizations to provide "material and spiritual help" in hospitals and prisons and charitable institutions-a privilege previously reserved to the Roman Catholic Church. And persistent rumors...
...After decades of dispute, the status of the Suez Canal area was settled more firmly than ever before. On the surface, this was an affair between the British, who agreed to withdraw their troops, and Egypt's Man of the Year, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser. In fact, the settlement was skillfully midwifed by the U.S. State Department through Old Diplomat Jefferson Caffery, then Ambassador to Egypt...