Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remain at Camp David. Carter proposes a deadline of Sunday to wind up the summit, hoping the pressure may help. "He wanted it to end neatly at a fixed time, rather than die by gasps," says one American. The sticking point now is Begin's refusal to agree to withdraw settlements from the Sinai. But he does offer alternative: he would leave that issue up to the Knesset to resolve. Told of this, Sadat reluctantly agrees...
Kheel denied the charge, adding that he would withdraw from the negotiations only at the request of George E. McDonald, president of APTC...
Last year, at an open hearing in front of the University's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a Harvard student spoke about AMAX's Namibian operations and asked that Harvard, following international law, sponsor an AMAX shareholder resolution requiring the company to withdraw from Namibia. In the great tradition of Harvard's free market of ideas, the committee politely thanked him for the suggestion, but seems never to have given it a moment's consideration...
Their job is to reoccupy and defend a former French outpost called Muc Wa, which they do successfully until there is an inexplicable change in strategy and they are forced to withdraw into ambush and massacre. The picture is good at catching the absurdity and futility of the operation, but in the long siege-and-retreat sequence, Director Post's failure to rise above simple realism becomes a problem. The scenes here should be spookier and more suspenseful, imparting a developing sense of the madness of isolation in an alien land where the native enemy has all the advantages...
Walzer also said that he thinks the majority of the Knesset, though not necessarily a majority of Begin's party, will vote to withdraw the Israeli settlements in the Sinai...