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NIXON: "Once enemy forces are driven out of these sanctuaries and once their military supplies are destroyed, we will withdraw...
BUSH: "The U.S. intends to withdraw the forces newly deployed to Panama as quickly as possible...
Against considerable odds, they are succeeding. In Florida's Republican primary Sept. 8, Jeb polled 46%, 10 points higher than anyone had predicted, in a tough field of six candidates. Last week the rival candidate in a runoff decided to withdraw, leaving Jeb as the party's nominee. In a poll taken several weeks before the primary, he had pulled to within 3 percentage points of incumbent Governor Lawton Chiles. In Texas the most recent poll showed young George leading Ann Richards by a point, in spite of her enormous popularity and 60% job-approval rating...
...generates its own momentum," she said. "I don't think the conference opponents have even read the draft document." Egyptian Population Minister Dr. Maher Mahran was more emphatic. "We all live in one boat," he told a gathering of Arab organizations just prior to the conference. "No country can withdraw, set itself aside, and those who do this are defeatists." At least one prominent conservative Egyptian religious leader defended the meeting, assuring Muslims that Mubarak had promised the U.N. document would not impose rules contravening Islamic teaching...
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...