Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Beirut, however, Walid Jumblatt was in no mood to talk with the leaders of a government whose real ami, he said, was to "butcher the Muslims." Like everyone else in Lebanon, he knew that the army's next big test would come as the Israeli forces withdraw from the rugged Chouf and Aley regions where the Christians and the Druze live side by side in perpetual tension. Vowed Jumblatt: "We will defend ourselves with the weapons we have, and when Israel pulls out, the battle for the mountains will begin...
More and more rape victims are refusing to withdraw into a silent scream. They no longer readily accept any portion of blame in a society that has traditionally been ambivalent about siding with them. In the past decade, as women have gained greater equality, women's groups have coalesced across the country to work to bring rape out of a miasma of shame, insensitivity and injustice. In many ways, the crusade has paid off. There has been widespread improvement in the way rape victims are treated by the police, courts and hospitals. There are now more than 700 rape crisis...
...refusing to withdraw Syria's 60,000 troops from Lebanon, Assad scotched an Israeli-Lebanese accord in which Israel would have pulled its 36,000 soldiers out of the embattled country. As a result, the Israelis were busy last week making final preparations to move their front line in western Lebanon to a more secure location 17 miles south of Beirut. In the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, meanwhile, Syrians and Israelis remain poised within sight of each other across a tense, mile-wide line. Assad's influence has also reached right into the inner circles...
...Nkomo for embarrassing the government, and ridiculed as "old hat" letters that Nkomo had sent from London proposing talks to solve Zimbabwe's internal problems. Then, to the surprise of most of the M.P.s present, Zvobgo announced that, because the government was not "vindictive or divisive," he would withdraw the controversial motion to unseat Nkomo...
...Islam. Last month Walid Jumblatt, Druze chieftain and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, helped organize a National Salvation Front with the deliberate aim of opposing Gemayel. The front struck an alliance with Syria and demanded that Gemayel renounce the May 17 agreement according to which Israel would withdraw its troops if Lebanon agreed to security and political guarantees. It has also insisted that the 1943 National Pact, which gives Maronite Christians the presidency and other dominant positions in the Lebanese government, be renegotiated...