Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after reaching abreakthrough agreementto resume peace negotiations with Syria, Israeli officials admitted they might jettison 28 years of tough talk and withdraw from the disputed Golan Heights. "We must not allow the chance ofcomprehensive peace in the Middle Eastto slip through our fingers," Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said. "No one will forgive us if children learn one day that it was possible to end the wars . . . and we ran away from a decision." Israel, he noted, made a similar territorial concession when it returned the entire Sinai peninsula to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty. But Prime Minister...
...Unabomber and the Oklahoma City bombing, according to a memo circulated between NASA and FBI officials and obtained by TIME. NASA runs the computer server used by the FBI to post and gather information on the two cases. But effective June 30, the memo says, NASA will withdraw its Internet support. NASA scientists, it adds, have "concerns about their vulnerability" if the space agency continues to sponsor the project. A NASA official involved in the matter refused to comment. Frustrated Justice Department officials are apparently seeking to post the sites elsewhere. TheOklahoma pageincludes an appeal to the public for assistance...
Students often try to compare the AdBoard to a court of law, which administrators saysimply is not the case. Jeffrey Wolcowitz,vice-chair of the Board says it is not a judge orJury but "an educational tool." Nevertheless,since requirement to withdraw from Harvard candrastically affect a student's life, many say theywish the standards for evidence were higher. "A1,"who recently came before the board says he feltthe Board's decision to place him on probation wasnot unfair but believes "in a court of law I'dhave been sitting back and relaxing...
...crime is less clear and the accuseddenies committing it, the role of a fair processis more important. "Tom" was accused of a crime hesays he didn't commit and required to withdraw fortwo years. He says he is frustrated by the AdBoard's role as judge and jury and theA...
...dark, square-jawed"John Doe No. 2" suspect in the Oklahoma bombingto all 56 field offices in the country, and said they are seeking at least two men associated with Timothy McVeigh, the suspect identified Friday. In Oklahoma City, court-appointed attorneys for McVeigh filed papers asking to withdraw from the case. (One of them, John Coyle, said his family had received threats and belatedly offered that he had friends hurt in the blast.) The Pentagon, meanwhile, reported that McVeigh and Terry Lynn Nichols -- a"Militia of Michigan"member now being held as a material witness -- entered the Army...