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...large measure, the White House enthusiasm was meant to persuade Congress there was no need to set a specific date for U.S. forces to withdraw. "We're on course for a rapid drawdown in our force," Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Walter Slocombe told a House committee on Friday, hours after Congress approved nonbinding resolutions calling for American troops to return home "as soon as possible." The U.S. will reduce its troop level in Haiti to 6,000 within six months, he said, and hand over peacekeeping duties to the U.N. But setting a deadline would encourage Haiti's thugs...
According to Frank T. Pasquerello of the Cambridge Police Department, the "ATM Bandit" approached students on the street, showed them a firearm and forced them to withdraw cash...
...United States plans to withdraw its troops from Haiti early next year. The narrowly defined mission for the U.S. military, confined essentially to cobbling together and training a local police force, needs to be expanded...
...staff were truly anti-sexist, it would advocate the integration of Wellesley too. And if it were truly anti-elitist, it would advocate the abolition of Harvard, or at least withdraw and transfer to some school with open admissions...
Liston also announced a reversal of his position on the option students have to check a box on term-bills and waive the council fee. He will now push to withdraw the council's official opposition to the check-box option...