Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saudia Arabia, which for years has been trying to woo predominantly Muslim Somalia out of the Soviet orbit. TIME has learned that in exchange for a firm Western pledge of armaments, the Somalis are prepared to order the Russians to vacate their huge missile base at Berbera and withdraw their 2,500 military technicians...
...West must choose between investment and human life. If it chooses human life, let it withdraw its heavy investments that support [the white regimes in] southern Africa. I like to believe the West can salvage what is already half lost. We give the situation in South Africa three years, and then it is bound to explode unless certain changes have taken place. But this is not a case of Communists telling South Africans what to do, or of Marxists telling the people of Zimbabwe they are oppressed. There is no need for that: it is obvious...
Those concerns arose largely because Carter had appeared to shift ground in his Middle East policy. During the campaign, his stress was on help for Israel. As President, he has taken a sterner line, suggesting that Israel withdraw from almost all occupied territory and calling rather generally for a homeland for the Palestinians. At last week's meeting he said very little that he had not said before-somewhere, some time -though now the emphasis was back on help for Israel. Certainly that pleased his audience, but all those zigs and zags might lead to confusion later...
...control or moderate the unions' wage demands, thus further aggravating inflation (now running at 17% annually), Callaghan could face a no-confidence vote in the House of Commons that he would probably lose. The resulting election might be a Tory landslide. Already David Steel has threatened to withdraw his pledge to support the Callaghan government with the 13 crucial Commons votes of his Liberal Party if no effective new agreement on wage restraints is forthcoming...
...only hope. One such group, 105 students under the auspices of the Italo-American foundation, flew to Perugia last week in the face of the ban. Each had paid $4,600 for air fare, a summer course in Italian at Perugia, and counseling services. Although offered the opportunity to withdraw from the program, all 105 decided to see it through. Says Marty Bergman. 22. an Oberlin graduate who was turned down by 23 U.S. medical schools but has been accepted by the University of L'Aquila: "We believe-we don't know yet-that we're considered...