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Hrones also notes that the letter was written on HBSAA stationery, implying a University endorsement. Hrones says the HBS alumnus should withdraw from the election...
...before that, frequently going on hunger strike) so that others might live. His philosophy of nonviolence seemed to work by embarrassing the British into leaving; freedom could be won, the film appeared to suggest, by being more moral than your oppressor, whose moral code could then oblige him to withdraw...
Lebanon and Syria today treated Israel?s offer to withdraw from southern Lebanon as something akin to an April Fool?s joke, indicating they weren?t interested in even discussing the matter with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After all, tacked on to the headline-grabbing announcement that Israel accepted a 20-year-old U.N. resolution ordering its withdrawal from Lebanon, is the rider that Netanyahu would only redeploy his forces once Israel?s security had been guaranteed by Lebanon and Syria. Since the U.N. resolution calls for unconditional and unilateral Israeli withdrawal, today?s announcement looks like little more than...
...depleting its resources in a major land war in Asia. That prospect may seem less pleasing today. Where the Communists almost had victory within their grasp last spring, the U.S. now bars the way and stands ready to repel any other attempted aggression. Unless Peking and Hanoi withdraw from South Vietnam--and lose face throughout Asia--it is the Communists themselves who risk being bogged in wars that they can neither afford nor end. Their blunder came as no surprise." --Jan. 7, 1966, from Man of the Year profile of General William Westmoreland...
...international coalition signed on to continued sanctions. But Saddam and all the problems Iraq raises would still be with us. "We face a new cold war in the gulf," says Middle East expert Anthony Cordesman. The U.S. can't end its confrontation with Saddam by force, nor can it withdraw, nor can it ignore the threat. As long as he endures, the U.S. is in the gulf to stay...