Word: withdrawal
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...fact, each year several Harvard students become finalists only to withdraw at the last minute, when they realize how hard it would be to study abroad while simultaneously attending a prestigious American law school...
...United Nations General Assembly last week. The President tried to send contrasting messages to two groups of allies. To relative soft-liners (France, the Soviet Union, several Arab states), he wanted to demonstrate that he was trying his best to offer Saddam Hussein a face-saving way to withdraw from Kuwait. That might also serve eventually to win more support for future military action against Iraq; the President would be able to argue that he had first exhausted all possibilities for a peaceful solution. Simultaneously, though, Bush wanted to tell hard-liners (Britain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, many members...
Bush repeated the core demand of nine U.N. resolutions passed over the past two months: Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait, totally and unconditionally. But "in the aftermath," said the President, "there may be opportunities for Iraq and Kuwait to settle their differences permanently . . . and for all the states and the peoples of the region to settle the conflict that divides the Arabs from Israel." The hint of future Iraqi-Kuwaiti negotiations on such points as border disputes, ownership of oil fields and Iraqi access to the Persian Gulf was not new. But the mention of Israel seemed to contradict...
...resolution authorizing the use of force, however, is something the ) U.S. is exploring, though for the moment not pushing. It would further turn up the heat on Saddam and might spur him either to withdraw from Kuwait or to launch a pre-emptive strike that would justify an allied counterattack. But dovish allies want other options pursued first. In addition, the U.S. and its allies would need ironclad assurances that China would not veto the resolution in the Security Council, and they have yet to begin seriously exploring conditions for Beijing's approval. The U.S. is counting on other...
Bush Administration officials are seriously considering freezing a $300 million aid package to Violeta Chamorro's government in Nicaragua. Reason: Nicaragua refuses to withdraw a suit filed in the World Court charging that the U.S.-backed contra war violated international law. The cautious Chamorro doesn't want to offend the powerful Sandinistas, who filed the case in 1984 and continue to hold control over the people's army...