Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armed forces are tied down in Yemen. The United Nations last week wearily gave up its 14-month Observation Mission in Yemen because both Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which have been bankrolling the operation, cut off funds, and Egypt had also gone back on its many promises to withdraw its troops...
...ingrown coterie that spends most of its time boozing and rutting. Fenstemaker, groans one liberal, is "Mahatma Gandhi and Rasputin, the Prince of Darkness and the goddam Mystic Angel." But he concedes that the old fox "knew what absolutely had to be done; he could engage himself and then withdraw without losing that commanding vision...
...Premier Ismet Inonu warned that Turkish patience was at an end. Out of the blue Mediterranean sky dropped flights of U.S.-built jet fighters. At first, the planes swooped low on "reconnaissance" sorties that were clearly intended as a threat to the Greek Cypriots. When the Greeks did not withdraw, the Turkish pilots poured rocket fire into the Greek positions around Kokkina. Three more jets blasted the Kyrenian mountain range as Greek Cypriot antiaircraft batteries filled the air with flak bursts. At the coastal town of Xeros. Turkish jets riddled a Greek Cypriot patrol boat, and the crew...
...called in Bobby Kennedy, told him that he was no longer a vice-presidential possibility, and hinted that it would be best if Bobby publicly disavowed any ambitions for the office. Bobby refused. After all, he explained rather obliquely, he had not announced his candidacy, so why should he withdraw...
BLUNTLEY: As you noted earlier, Chet, many delegates have urged Governor Scranton to withdraw as a gesture for party unity. And there is now every indication that he will do just that. Chet...