Word: withdrawal
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Even before the Baker-Shoval meeting last week, the Palestinians had threatened to withdraw from the talks. But Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, spokeswoman for the Palestinian peace negotiators, made it clear that if the guarantees were conditioned to "eliminate entirely any possibility of these funds being subsidies to occupation and settlements," the Palestinians would continue to negotiate. They are unlikely to be satisfied by the proposal that Baker reportedly made. "It is permission to put 10,000 obstacles on the road to peace," says Saeb Erakat, a member of the Palestinian negotiating team...
Once Aronberg talked to Heinicke about running for chair, Heinicke decided to withdraw from the race "for the good of the Council...
This last matter of cost allocation brings thetotal of questionable and overruled costs in lastyear's reimbursement request to nearly $1 million,including the $250,000 the Medical School hasalready volunteered to withdraw...
Does Stone really believe that one reshuffling of Pentagon personnel is tantamount to declaring war on the military-industrial complex, or that Kennedy was the only President ever to juggle staff? It is only "beyond the looking glass" that a one-time decision to withdraw 1000 Americans, as Kennedy committed to shortly before his trip to Dallas, out-weighs a long-standing policy that led to the deployment of about 15,000 others. In the course of a three-year war, such a move means precious little, and could far more easily have been motivated by a desire, for instance...
...problem with Saddam was not his military might -- the President never doubted that the U.S. had the power to prevail in combat -- but the possibility that the Iraqi leader might withdraw from Kuwait at the last minute, keeping his menacing army and maniacal intentions intact. "I mean, this was worrying me," says Bush. "What happens if he does just haul all this armor back along the border, unpunished, unrepentant, faced down by what he knows is a superior army...