Word: withdrawal
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...French Wall 83, the one candidate for the chairmanship of the Undergraduate Council who had advocated immediate attention to progressive political issues, yesterday said he would withdraw from the election at Sunday's meeting, citing un unwillingness to manage the council's procedural concerns...
Although the Israelis won the military battle in Lebanon, they lost the political war in the eyes of the world [Sept. 27]. It is now time for Israel to withdraw from Lebanon, give up the West Bank and Gaza, and recognize the Palestinians' right to become a nation...
...officials were mildly optimistic that an agreement would soon be reached to remove all foreign armies from Lebanon: some 5,000 to 6,000 P.L.O. guerrillas and 30,000 Syrian and 70,000 Israeli troops. Special Envoy Philip Habib and others were working on a detailed plan for phased withdrawals that will be presented to Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir this week in Washington. But many obstacles must be overcome. Last week Syrian President Hafez Assad informed Habib and his deputy in the Middle East, U.S. Ambassador Morris Draper, that Israeli forces would have to withdraw first. In the past...
...treaty was ratified under Bunau-Varilla's threat that the U.S. would withdraw its protection from the new republic and sign an alternative agreement that would effectively terminate Panama's existence. It was never clear whether John Hay or President Theodore Roosevelt concurred in this remarkable warning. The result of this act was the construction by the U.S. of the Panama Canal within a ten-mile-wide strip of land extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, one of the great engineering achievements of all time and a boon to the seagoing nations of the world. Within...
Does Updike withdraw to his study to write three pages every weekday? Bech instead takes up the literary