Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger's major problem is to define and possibly extend the perimeters of agreement. At this point, Sadat cannot agree to a formal declaration of nonbelligerency, which Israel demands in return for withdrawing from the Mitla and Giddi passes and surrendering the Abu Rudeis oilfields in the Sinai desert. But the Israeli government is prepared to make less extensive territorial withdrawals in exchange for symbolic tokens of Egypt's peaceful intentions, like its allowing Israeli cargoes to pass through the reopened Suez Canal. One sticking point is Israel's insistence that any further disengagement deal be spelled...
...committees. The House set up the East Boston People's Rights Committee last year, designed to help welfare recipients get their checks from an un-cooperative bureaucracy. The particular charm of this committee is that once it has helped educate and organize a community pressure group, it will withdraw from East Boston and the resident organization will be self-sufficient...
...Divinity School student group threatened yesterday to withdraw from all standing student faculty committees protesting what it termed a "disregard of student input", by acting dean Rev. Preston N. Williams, especially in the school's decision to raise tuition next year...
Indeed, Jerusalem's negotiating position today is pretty much what the Defense Secretary wants it to be. Last fall he singlehandedly scotched Kissinger's suggestion that Israel should unilaterally withdraw from parts of the Sinai as a friendship gesture to Egypt by threatening to resign from the Cabinet, an act that would have brought down Rabin's coalition government. Peres argued that Israel should make territorial concessions only if it got something specific in return, like a pact of nonbelligerency from the Egyptians, and eventually he brought around a majority of his 21 Cabinet colleagues...
...Congressmen pressured the board to withdraw a similar proposal for variable interest rates (VIR), but that was before a credit drought drove home-mortgage rates to more than 10.5% last year and dried up housing construction. Unless Congress specifically votes down the idea, federally chartered savings and loans will begin offering the new VIR mortgages in about six months. Borrowers would then be able to choose either VIR or fixed rates on their mortgages...