Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement of withdrawal of the Israeli army was signed with Lebanon (May 1983). The Israelis will withdraw from Lebanon on one condition: the departure of the Syrians. But the Syrians refused to go; their dream of swallowing Lebanon was coming true, and they didn't want to leave. And, instead of fighting against Israel. Syria (which calls itself the leader of the fighting countries against Israel) turned its guns against the Christians of Lebanon...
...State George Shultz sought to allay congressional fears that the Reagan Administration was recklessly risking war by scheduling large-scale military maneuvers in Central America. If U.S. forces are attacked at any time during the six-month-long maneuvers, Shultz declared, "our forces will defend themselves but they will withdraw." He added, "We have no intent to engage anyone actively...
...actions of clients, such as offering fraudulent stock or planning a bribe. The proposal was voted down at the association's midyear meeting last February. Reformers within the tradition-bound A.B.A. had to take half-a-loaf satisfaction from a compromise last week that would allow attorneys to withdraw if their clients are using them in unlawful schemes; they may also announce their resignation from the case. Said Yale Law Professor Geoffrey Hazard, who helped draft the code: "For practical purposes, that's a signal that something is seriously wrong...
Fearful that the Israeli pullback would take the pressure off the Syrians to withdraw their forces, the Reagan Administration attempted to put the best face possible on Israel's decision. Thus the White House played host to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir in Washington last week. The officials were rilling in for Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who one week earlier had unexpectedly canceled his own trip to the U.S. After more than 15 hours of talks at the State Department, Arens and Shamir met briefly with Ronald Reagan to offer publicly the assurance that...
Nonetheless, Washington still hopes that by depicting the partial pullback as the first step in a complete Israeli withdrawal, it may be able to prevail upon Syria to remove some of its soldiers as well. As Reagan explained at his White House press conference last week, "It certainly will give us a better case for breaking the roadblock that has been established by Syria and persuading them to keep their original promise that when others withdrew, they would withdraw." That is the essence of the message U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane is expected to carry to Syria on his first...