Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atmosphere. Forced to resign after charges of mismanagement and fostering a cozy relationship between her agency and polluters, she turned off many of her supporters by belittling her new job as a "nothing-burger." The Republican Senate joined the Democratic House in passing non-binding resolutions asking Reagan to withdraw the appointment, which did not require Senate confirmation. Last week Burford decided not to take the un-salaried post, claiming that the "unwarranted furor" had done "grave disservice to your outstanding record on the environment." There was relief in the White House and in the Reagan-Bush re-election committee...
...leaders imposed martial law in 1981. LOT, the Polish airline, will again be permitted to land in the U.S., and scientific exchanges between the two countries will be resumed. Moreover, if the Polish government completely carries out the announced amnesty, the U.S. will go one additional step: it will withdraw its opposition to Poland's desire for membership in the International Monetary Fund. Until the Polish government softens its restrictive attitude toward labor unions, however, the U.S. will continue to deny American agricultural commodity credits and refuse most-favored-nation trading status to Poland...
...scramble to stitch together a patchwork coalition raised new doubts about the country's ability to solve its most pressing problems: how to cool 400% inflation, whether to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon, what to do about the occupied West Bank, how best to achieve an Arab-Israeli peace. Any new government, whether cobbled together by Labor or by Likud, promises to be a rickety, splintered structure that could collapse at any moment. "A divided nation remains divided," editorialized the Jerusalem Post. Said Ma'ariv, a Tel Aviv daily: "The greatest disappointment was that neither...
...State Department was particularly interested in Peres' intention to begin negotiations to withdraw 22,000 Israeli troops from southern Lebanon within a few months and in his proposal to invite Jordan's King Hussein to enter negotiations on the future of the West Bank...
...running at 50% a year, and the government is desperately seeking to restructure a $25.6 billion foreign debt. Banco Filipino, the nation's largest savings institution, was forced to call on troops last week to hold back angry depositors who were demanding that they be allowed to withdraw their money from one of its branches. In addition, 35% of the work force is now unemployed, though the government insists that the figure is 5% to 6%. In recent months alone, there have been 250,000 new layoffs...