Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other intellectuals who treasure their links to the West, as well as the limited freedom detente has brought them, feared that the iron fist would fall on them as a result of a renewed cold war. The most openly expressed emotion was anger at the U.S. threat to withdraw from the Olympics. The Soviets appeared to take personal offense at what they perceived as a blow to their country's pride. One topic was not discussed: the presence of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The fact that Soviet soldiers are fighting and dying in Southwest Asia has become known only...
Even while Lake Placid proceeded, the American trajectory away from Moscow seemed unalterable. U.S. participation in the Summer Games has become more or less unthinkable, unless the Soviets withdraw their forces from Afghanistan in the next few months. That is improbable. So is the possibility, now being discussed, of moving the Games from Moscow to some other city, or postponing them. Jimmy Carter has committed the prestige of his presidency to the boycott. Having ineffectually lectured the Soviets last fall about their troops in Cuba, he cannot now fail to make an Olympic boycott stick, especially in a presidential election...
...justice in South Africa. Harvard's relation to the principles, and to a humanistic concern for black South Africans, is one of endorsement but not one of commitment. If a company or investor is unwilling to make the commitment to this "nonviolent revolution," Sullivan says, it should divest, or withdraw from South Africa. It definitely should not attempt to couch its inaction and legitimize its self-interest through a hollow dedication to the Sullivan principles...
...could withdraw your troops from Africa...
...cannot withdraw our military personnel unilaterally because we have commitments to these countries. Our wish is that when these countries [Angola and Ethiopia] feel secure, we will be able to withdraw our military forces. We do not have any interest whatsoever in keeping them endlessly there...