Word: withdrawal
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...Israeli army's job of policing the Gaza Strip more difficult than ever. Soldiers are constantly stoned and more and more frequently shot at; several deadly attacks on civilians inside Israel itself have been committed by religious Gazans. Many Israelis have begun to argue that Israel should unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and leave it to its misery...
YEGOR GAIDAR NEVER EXPECTED TO LAST LONG IN power. Appointed to Boris . Yeltsin's government a year ago, the 36-year-old architect of Russia's economic reforms foresaw a "kamikaze" mission: launch Russia's transition to a market economy and then withdraw, battered and no doubt vilified for making his nation suffer. His prediction proved accurate last week, when he was ousted as acting Prime Minister. In his place rose fears that Russia had begun a slow retreat from democratic reform...
...legislature in less than 10 days, on overwhelming votes in both the upper and lower chambers. "It's just the outright assisting in a killing that this bill will prohibit," says representative Joseph Palamara, a Democratic state legislator from Wyandotte. "It doesn't affect whatsoever doctors who withhold or withdraw food...
...first troops landed, Robert Oakley, the U.S. special envoy, held a series of meetings in Mogadishu that resulted in reports that he had no intention of entering into negotiations with Somalia's warlords, but would simply inform them of U.S. military aims and lay down a deadline to withdraw their gunmen. By Friday, Oakley had brokered a temporary reconciliation between the country's two most powerful clan leaders, General Mohammed Farrah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohammed, who had not spoken in more than a year. Emerging from their meeting at the U.S. liaison office, the two warlords agreed...
...much of this story is familiar to Northwestern voters. Similar accusations of sexual misconduct on the part of Washington Senator Brock Adams were published in The Seattle Times last spring. After a few weeks of dithering, Adams decided to withdraw from the campaign while maintaining his complete innocence. Adams, a Democrat, also had a good record on women's issues...