Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidently worried about the fate of Kosovar Serbs, had rumbled into Pristina, Kosovo's capital, despite an earlier understanding that they would not enter until agreement had been reached with NATO on command of the peacekeepers. On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov apologized and said the troops would withdraw, but as the day wore on, they stayed put, effectively in charge of the airport...
...time PSLM staged its March 9 rally, students at several other schools had already won concessions from their administrators through protests and sit-ins. Schools such as Georgetown, Wisconsin and Duke had said they would withdraw from the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) if it did not disclose factory locations by the end of the year...
...Israelis are to unite behind a renewed peace process. Washington, eager for a foreign policy success before Clinton leaves office, especially against the grim backdrop of Kosovo, will urge the parties to speed toward new agreements. Barak wants agreements too, but on his terms. He has pledged to withdraw Israeli forces from south Lebanon within a year, but he rejects the notion of a unilateral pullout. He is ready to do a deal with Syria on returning the Golan Heights but hangs tough on demilitarization and full normalization of ties...
...your recent article (News, May 17) on the decision by the Nieman Foundation to withdraw a fellowship from Liu Kinming, Bill Kovach, the Curator, noted that the letters he'd received from supporters of Liu struck him as "political...
...wrote one of Liu's references for the Nieman and I also wrote to Kovach about his withdrawal. Political considerations were not in my mind. I told Kovach that Liu had suddenly changed jobs from op-ed editor of one paper to a much better one. I noted that while he was waiting to hear from Harvard, he could hardly turn down such an offer on the chance that he would receive a Nieman--and in any event the job would have gone to someone else. I pointed out that Liu's new paper was the only one in Hong...