Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate in the House of Commons was heated and noisy, so naturally the Honorable Member from Brent East was in the thick of it. Discussing the deaths of suspected terrorists in Northern Ireland, Ken Livingstone suggested that the British Attorney General was an "accomplice to murder." Tories shouted, "Withdraw! Withdraw!" and the Speaker admonished the Labor M.P., demanding that he rephrase his comment. As Livingstone sat silently unrepentant, the Commons voted to oust him from the chamber. A sword-bearing sergeant at arms escorted him out the door...
...bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army killed eleven people in the town of Enniskillen, Livingstone caused another furor by saying Ulster was Britain's Viet Nam and predicting that the I.R.A. would win the conflict. Livingstone defied Kinnock by demanding that Britain cut its defense budget and withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. By warning of a civil war within the party, he embarrassed Kinnock into dropping plans for a review of Labor's nonnuclear defense policy...
MOSCOW--Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced Monday that the Soviet Union will withdraw from Afghanistan beginning on May 15 if U.N.-sponsored peace talks reach a settlement within five weeks. He said the pullout could be completed within 10 months...
...think that there's going to be a terrible amount of pressure to withdraw on people like [former Secretary of State Alexander] Haig, [former Governor of Delaware Pete] duPont, and even [New York Rep. Jack] Kemp on the Republican side, and on the Democratic side, [former Sen. Gary] Hart and [former Arizona Governor Bruce] Babbit," Kalb said...
...this point the eager ice appreciator must withdraw slightly from the artistic symbosis he doubtless has acheived. The purpose of the instailation, after all, is to challenge the perceptions, not to litter the Quad with frozen corpses. That would be neither artistic nor santitary. It is time for the seeker after art and truth to return to the academic paradise that is Harvard, to a warmer and less esoteric world...