Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lamented Glenn: "I honestly appreciate, very fully, Saudi needs and our needs in this area. I'm still hopeful something can be worked out." Reagan, however, is not about to withdraw his plan and negotiate a new one. He has already begun a campaign of persuasion like the one that helped roll over opposition to his tax and budget cuts. "It will be as active and vigorous an effort as anything done in this Administration so far," says Meese. This time, however, it may not work. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Johanna McGeary/ Washington...
...Palestinian forces would withdraw from their enclave around the coastal city of Tyre, and also reduce their guerrilla strength from a current level of about 700 to 200 in the region south of the Litani River that is controlled by UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon). At the same time, Israel would remove all of its troops from the area controlled by Major Sa'ad Haddad's Christian militia, which has been working closely with the Israelis. Lebanese government forces would be allowed to take over this area and would absorb Haddad's fighters...
...Finally, Syrian forces would withdraw from all parts of Lebanon except the Bekaa Valley, where Syrian antiaircraft missiles were installed last April. At the same time U.N. troops would supervise the removal of all heavy weapons, including the Syrian missiles, from points south of the Zahrani River, which cuts across southern Lebanon north and west of the Litani. At this point, Israeli and Lebanese officials would begin talks on how to make the recent cease-fire a lasting one and how to prevent border violations...
Nonetheless, in light of the student council's plans to fund undergraduate organizations, RUS has decided to withdraw its funding of campus women's groups. "Women are a part of both the Harvard and Radcliffe communities, and they will pay fees to both RUS and the council. We feel women are entitled to council funds on the same basis as men--we don't want women to be doubly penalized," Einaudi says, adding that RUS will be watching to see if the council discriminates funding women's organizations because RUS has supported them in the past...
Almost on cue, three days after South African troops had begun to withdraw from Angola, Defense Minister Magnus Malan announced that they had captured a Soviet soldier, Nikolai Pestretsov, 36, in a convoy of SWAPO guerrillas and Angolan forces some 31 miles from the Namibian border. Two unidentified Soviet lieutenant colonels and two Soviet women also were reported killed...