Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gemayel stopped in France to confer with King Hussein of Jordan, who was vacationing near Nice. In Washington the Lebanese President warned his hosts that if the U.S. did not persuade both Israel and Syria to withdraw their troops from Lebanon soon, his fragile government could collapse. Gemayel also expressed his opposition to Israel's redeployment plan. Said he: "The partial withdrawal gives the impression, unfortunately, and I can't believe it, that the U.S. effort has failed...
...abandoned school. Seven people died, including two soldiers. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Druze villagers clashed with a Lebanese army patrol. The toll: two dead and 18 wounded. The last incident carried ominous implications since the Lebanese army is expected to guard the area when Israeli troops withdraw to more defensible positions, a move the Israelis are expected to make shortly...
...Stop the clashes in the Bekaa Valley. If they do not arrive at an agreement with the Syrians, then Damascus should let us move our troops from the Bekaa to Tripoli [a port city on the Lebanese coast]. But I do not think the Syrians will allow us to withdraw...
...foreign troops in Lebanon. The Americans made the fatal mistake of thinking they could get all the forces to withdraw and still bypass the crucial issue of the Middle East: the Palestinian problem. Nothing has been solved by the Israeli invasion, and the situation is only more complicated now. Israel will not leave. As for Syria, it is better that you ask them...
...going through the moment of truth," says Republican Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, a leading critic of tight-money policies. "What the Fed does now will determine the fate of the economy for the rest of the year, perhaps longer." Kemp said that President Reagan should withdraw Volcker's name from renomination if the Fed squeezes too hard...