Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improvement in U.S.Israeli relations was engineered largely by Secretary of State George Shultz, who has felt personally betrayed by the refusal of Syrian President Hafez Assad to carry out a promise to withdraw troops from Lebanon after Israel not only agreed to do so but unilaterally and prematurely drew back to safer positions in southern Lebanon, actually against U.S. wishes. The agreement is virtually a return to former Secretary of State Alexander Haig's "consensus of strategic concerns," in which U.S. and Israeli military cooperation was seen as vital to discouraging Soviet intrusion into Middle East politics and, more...
...talks with Gemayel were less productive. The U.S. reportedly promised to continue to strengthen his forces, mainly with training advisers, so that they can control more territory. Any such progress would, of course, give Washington a rationale for moving its Marines to safer positions or to withdraw them completely. Privately, however, some U.S. officials fear that Gemayel is too timid and preoccupied with his personal safety to make any decisive moves...
Perle persisted. He threatened to withdraw his support for other features of the U.S. proposal unless he got his way on this issue. In one tense session at the Pentagon, he delivered a scathing indictment of the chiefs, saying they were notoriously shortsighted about...
...independence under the 1960 treaty, Britain, Greece and Turkey discuss the problem. Greece, however, objected to face-to-face talks with Ankara, forcing Thatcher to seek a compromise formula for negotiations. The issue ultimately went before the U.N. Security Council, which voted to ask the Turkish Cypriots to withdraw their unilateral declaration of independence...
...Washington, D.C., one-third of the nation's 292 active Catholic bishops attended a meeting that was sponsored in part by groups advocating the ordination of women. Although the bishops remain loyal to the Pope's September directive to withdraw "all support" from those promoting the cause of female priests, they are becoming increasingly sympathetic to women's demands for justice within the church...