Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait. If Saddam Hussein agrees to evacuate, I will be the first to call for all foreign forces to leave the region. Then we shall replace them with Arab troops. Once the Kuwaiti government is restored, the problems between Iraq and Kuwait can be resolved in negotiations...
Last month an Illinois judge ruled that forcing a donation would violate the twins' right to privacy. The risk is relatively small; doctors withdraw the marrow through a needle from the donor's hipbone. But Curran's lawyers argue that there is always the chance of complications. "I do not want to see my children in pain," says Curran. "My priority in this is my children...
...Moscow when the U.S. ignored the Soviet view and launched its unilateral police action in the gulf. "The possibilities for joint action should have been given more consideration," said Soviet Middle East expert Igor Belyayev. Finally, however, the Soviets lost patience with Saddam. On Friday Gorbachev issued an ultimatum: Withdraw from Kuwait or face "additional measures" from the U.N. Since Saddam was clearly not giving in, the way was cleared for Soviet support of an international blockade...
...G.O.P., has been sending out $25 checks to nearly 700,000 Americans. All the recipients have to do is endorse them and deposit them in their banks. However, there is a tiny little catch, as an accompanying letter explains. The deposited check gives the task force the right to withdraw $12.50 a month from the individual's account for what it calls candidate escrow funding. Lucky recipients of the checks are allowed to exit the program after two payments have been extracted -- there goes the $25 -- but they are encouraged to remain participants and painlessly, perhaps endlessly, go on contributing...
...conservatives argued that any move against Doe might lead him to seize the American installations. And this was the heyday of Jeane Kirkpatrick's theory that traditional dictatorships of the Third World were more amenable to democratization than totalitarian regimes of the left. Washington endorsed Doe's election. "To withdraw support for Liberia's economic development," explained Chester Crocker, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, "would sacrifice the tentative steps taken toward representative government...