Word: withdrawals
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...Terrorists: Why Not Negotiate? The decision by the Philippines to withdraw its peacekeepers from Iraq in exchange for the release of a Philippine truck driver who was kidnapped by insurgents is to be applauded [Aug. 9]. Surely it is the duty of any government to safeguard its own people before anything else. The Philippines did not cave in to U.S. pressure or sacrifice one of its citizens to satisfy the Bush Administration. C.A. Van Meurs Christchurch, New Zealand...
...next movie Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love was universally skewered, and even Nair disowned it as an "aberration." In 1997 she moved to South Africa with her second husband, Mahmood Mamdani?now an anthropology professor at Columbia?to look after their son Zohran and, it seemed, to withdraw from directing into the life of a suburban housewife...
Hours later, al-Sadr accepted a deal that would empty the shrine of his fighters, and in return U.S. forces would withdraw from the city, turning over responsibility for keeping the peace to Iraqi police. But uncertainty lingered over how long the truce would last. The upstart cleric, whose Mahdi Army was allowed to withdraw intact, has reneged on agreements before, and this latest tactical retreat, after hundreds of his men had been killed, left him and his surviving militiamen free to fight another day. The interim Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had repeatedly vowed to crush...
...road between Baghdad and Najaf; in Iraq. The al-Jazeera network said last Thursday that it had received a picture of Baldoni's body from a group calling itself the Islamic Army; the group claimed the killing was in response to Italy's refusal to withdraw troops from Iraq. A father of two who ran a successful Milan advertising agency, Baldoni turned to journalism in 1996 and was working in Iraq for the Milan weekly Diario. He is the second Italian hostage killed in Iraq since April...
...when Kerry spoke to the VFW two days later, he attacked Bush's position, using an argument with some merit but of microscopic import in the midst of a presidential campaign: he said it was a "hasty" and "political" plan and certainly not a good negotiating tactic to withdraw troops from Korea while we are trying to get the North Koreans to drop their nuclear program...