Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other oil-rich states (to the tune of $2 billion to $4 billion a year). Sadat could take such action only if the P.L.O. and the other Arabs dealt themselves out, but he certainly could not do it at a time when the Israelis, quite apart from refusing to withdraw from the lands they already occupy, are busy roaming over yet another Arab nation's territory. With rising anger, Sadat criticized Israel at week's end for "killing innocent civilians under the pretext of guaranteeing its security. We condemn such acts," he added, "as we have condemned earlier the massacre...
Once the fighting is over, the Israelis would probably withdraw some combat troops but leave a large enough force to secure the buffer zone in an effort to reduce the number of terrorist raids from the north. Later, they would probably be prepared to give way to Christian Lebanese soldiers (who oppose the Palestinians), or to U.N. peacekeeping forces, or to a combination of the two. But actually, the Israelis have declared de facto control over a strip of southern Lebanon, and it looks as if they intend to retain some kind of presence. As an Egyptian foreign ministry official...
...meantime, Israel should comply with the U.N. Security Council resolution and withdraw entirely from Lebanon. A U.N. peace-keeping force is an inadequate solution at best but all that is acceptable at present. Only with the ending of the occupation can the real issues at hand be addressed. Hope, so often dashed, should not be abandoned altogether, despite the events of recent weeks...
...drop the ad, said DeCrow, "we women will have to start our great vacations with one of your competitors." In a nonplused reply, Lundstrom asserted that "we never considered that such a headline ... would have been taken out of context." Nonetheless, his consciousness presumably raised, he agreed to withdraw...
A.C.T.W.U.'s strategy was simple: unions threatened to withdraw more than $ 1 billion of funds and deposits from the bank if Stevens men continued to sit on the bank's board. So Stevens Chairman James D. Finley and David W. Mitchell, a Stevens director and chairman of Avon Products Inc., announced that they would get off the board when the bank re-elects directors next month. Mitchell pleaded the press of other business, but Finley told a different story to reporters attending the Stevens annual meeting (which was moved to Greenville, S.C., apparently to escape the attention...