Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision is not made in the Carter Administration until the President makes up his mind in private. On occasion he does not follow the advice of even his most senior assistants, as he showed when he made his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea. This time Carter went partly along with his advisers' recommendations. He postponed production of the bomb but gave a go-ahead for work on the Lance missile and artillery shell that will deliver...
While Carter ignored the Horn, the Soviets moved to support Ethiopia economically as well as militarily: they poured $850 million into the country. The Somalis, fearing Soviet support of Ethiopia and seeing the possibility of expansion in the future checked, expelled the Soviets, forcing them to withdraw from Berbera. But the Soviets, anticipating the Somali move, had already established themselves at Aden, the port at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula of South Yemen, long considered by the British as the most strategic point on the Red Sea. The base is close to the Red Sea island of Yanbu, where...
THEN THE WAR between the Somalis and the Ethiopians erupted. The Somalis pushed into the Ogaden in Ethiopia and were met by the superior Ethiopian forces. They were forced to withdraw in March of this year not, as Carter claims, because of U.S. pressure, but rather because they were incapable of sustaining the fight. The Soviets who have set themselves up as the champions of the black liberation movements are now supporting the Dergue's squelching of the Eritrean independence movement. They are supporting a regime that has moved to wipe out student opposition in the country and that...
...SASC proposals call for Harvard not to invest in banks lending money to the South African government or its public corporations, and to support or initiate shareholder resolutions urging all companies in the Harvard investment portfolio that operate in South Africa to withdraw from the country...
Clifford said the proposal was aimed at reducing the high rate of vandalism in that building, but he added that Bromery has agreed with the demonstrators and will withdraw the proposal...