Word: withdrawal
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Zaire, admitting its troops in the refugee camps were "out of control," said it would withdraw about 400 soldiers who have been pilfering Rwandan refugees' food and possessions in the border town of Goma. Thousands of Rwandans in the Goma camps protested Thursday against the soldiers, many of whom were unpaid for months and went AWOL to Goma to seek their fortune. About 60 miles to the south today, some 50,000 people reportedly massed across the border from the Zairian city of Bukavu, underscoring relief workers' fears of a new exodus when French troops leave southwest Rwanda...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Estonian President Lennart Meri signed an agreement ending Russia's 50-year military presence in the Baltic republic. Russia will withdraw its 2,000 remaining troops by month's end in the compromise accord, which allows some 10,000 retired Soviet military officers living in Estonia to apply for residency there...
...that time, however, Clinton may have been grateful for the distractions. In a major embarrassment at the summit, the Administration was forced to withdraw a last-minute initiative aimed at attacking trade barriers not covered under the recently completed GATT global trade accord. Sprung on the G-7 leaders just 10 days before the summit opened, the initiative was cautiously accepted by some countries but was flatly and publicly rejected by the French. Stung by having to withdraw the initiative so abruptly, Clinton privately blamed his trade team for sloppy preparation...
...that wondrous entity, the human personality, is being decoded. An even temper or a short fuse, an affectionate nature or a penchant for anonymous sex, a love of thrills or a tendency to withdraw: such elements of our cherished sense of self are being revealed as less the shadings of the soul than the manifestations of neurobiology...
...seemed more a declaration of defiance against anyone who had objected to Farrakhan's participation. "We don't get in your family business, you stay out of ours," Farrakhan shouted at a Sunday-night rally at Baltimore's historic Bethel A.M.E. Church, threatening widespread boycotts of any corporations that withdraw support of the N.A.A.C.P. because of his presence at the summit. "We will march on you like you've never been marched on before," he said. "We will turn you inside out and upside down...